Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...

I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil War America ... that she was promoted from corporal to sergeant—shortly before she gave birth! After the war, Sarah Edmonds doffed her uniform ...

A corporal from New Jersey “was promoted to ... Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.” “When viewed against the backdrop of Victorian oppression, the appeal of pretending to be male ...