Author: Sarah Dye | July 2026 During the Civil War women played many different roles to support the war and their state’s cause. Many utilized their at-home nursing skills when their homes were overtaken to become make-shift hospitals or volunteered to join the nurses corp. There’s a group of women that are not talked about often, and those are the wives of soldiers who followed and lived with them on the front lines. They lived in tents, cooked, washed clothes, and nursed th