CHAPTER 18: The Civil War "Hearts at Home"

Introduction
Students have read that during the Civil War women played a variety of significant roles, including nurse, cook, seamstress, and anti-slavery activist. In this lesson, students will take a closer look at the lives of women in the South during the war.

Lesson Description
Students will examine primary source information regarding the lives of Southern women during the Civil War on the University of Virginia Web site. Then they will answer questions based on their readings.

Instructional Objectives
1. Students will have a better understanding of how women lived during the war.
2. Students will have a better understanding of how Southern society viewed women.

Student Web Activity Answers
1. He was courting both of them.
2. beauty, family, home, gentility, goddess of war and agriculture 3. power over tyranny; this was an important concept to Southerners, who saw Northern leaders as tyrants trying to rule their lives.
4. Macaria; the wartime struggles of Confederate woman, Irene Huntingdon

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