This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) pin Hearts Torn Asunder explores the

Hearts Torn Asunder explores the psychological experience of these soldiers and civilians during the chaotic closing weeks of the war

nor did he excoriate the South for the sin of slavery

which began in April 1861 and came to an end in the last days of April 1865

When John M

In Discovering Gettysburg

This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) pin Hearts Torn Asunder explores theby Jessica Ziparo In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain well paid, intellectually challenging work in a country and time that typically excluded females from such channels of labor. Thousands of