Private Carpenter Discusses the role of Women in the Civil War

Private Riley Carpenter, From C Company, 150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, discusses the roles of women in the Civil War as nurses, caregivers, and soldiers. This is just some of the many ways women served their country; they were also spies, messengers, ocassional stretcher-bearers, cooks, and vivandieres (look that up here in article from the United States Army: https://www.army.mil/…/vivandieres_forgotten_women_of_the_c…