This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) pet 000 Union and Confederate soldiers

000 Union and Confederate soldiers were still in the field bringing war with them as they moved across the state’s verdant heartland

by Leon Reed

But the President-Elect discovered an inner strength

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This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) pet 000 Union and Confederate soldiersby 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