Women Amidst War

Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about the history of the US Army at Fort Washington from a woman’s perspective. Get a close look at Civil War-era laundry supplies and a footlocker from a Women’s Army Corps member during World War II. Talk with staff and volunteers about the role of women in the Army from the American Revolution onward!

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This five-part series explores histories of voting rights in the United States. Through interviews with historians and other scholars it traces the uneven and fitful course of suffrage from the period of the Civil War to the present-day.

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Following Virginia's secession in April of 1861, Elizabeth Van Lew joined with other Richmond Unionists to create an underground network to hinder the Confederate war effort and give aid and comfort to captured Union soldiers. The infamous Libby Prison, which held scores of Union officers in deplorable conditions, was located only blocks from Van Lew's home.

Anna Etheridge, one of the Civil War's only two female Kearny Cross recipients, is proof that women of the era could be just as brave as men in places of battle.

Arguably the most famous Civil War nurse, Clara Barton went to great lengths to see after the sick and wounded and to ensure that they were treated both expediently and humanely. Her work in the war led her to found the American Red Cross, an organization that would provide humanitarian relief for a wide variety of crises.

Actress and Civil War spy, Pauline Cushman-Fryer narrowly escaped execution for her service to the Union cause. Undercover in Tennessee she performed an illness to escape hanging. She is buried in the Officer's section of the San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio.

Harriet Robinson Scott was an enslaved woman whose determination to free herself and her family made history.