Women and the War

I have been noticing around me the new roles that are being played by women. I realized this as soon as my good friend, Eliza from North Carolina, wrote to me about her husband being away in the war. She said that she has had to take over their families plantation but she loves it. The once dominated by men world before the civil war has slightly disappeared. Since so many men have left to fight in the war it has left jobs open for women. One of my other friends, Martha, has recently decided to join her husband in the army. She says that she only cooks and cleans but it has given her a different purpose of life. I don't feel as though my job has drastically changed; I was a teacher abut due to demand in products I work at a cloth making factory. Although the war hasn't changed my role much I am happy for my friends who are finally able to step up in society without causing a fuse in the community. I have wrote to my husband about the changes and he wrote me back talking about the nurses who are joining the army. Nursing has become a very noble job and apparently it was started by Clara Barton. I hadn't heard much of the traveling of women until Martha told me about Clara. I guess I had been so blinded by the fighting that I didn't realize how much women are stepping up. Lincoln approved the United States Sanitary Commission and this allows women to be able to watch over hospitals in military installations. Women are learning how to cure the soldiers and bandage their wounds and this has brought lots of help to injured soldiers and maybe this could help women gain a bigger role in society after the war.