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   They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War

   DeAnne Blanton

   “Women lived in germ-ridden camps, languished in appalling prisons, and died miserably, but honorably, for their country and their cause just as men did.”

   The untold story of the women who dressed like and fought as men in the Civil War:

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