Women acted in many roles during the Civil War. In addition to homeowner and plantation/farm manager (while their husbands were at war), they also acted as nurses, vivandieres, spies, soldiers, matrons of hospitals, authors and (in one case) co-conspirators in the murder of a President. One Union women, Mary Walker, acted as a medical doctor, and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. This book will examine 25 women that had an exceptional influence on the Civil War, including Elizabeth Van Lew, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Cummings, Lucy Holcombe Pickens, Mary Surratt, Mary Chesnut and Rose O'Neal Greenhow. The book contains 36 photographs.