List of female American Civil War soldiers

Numerous women enlisted and fought as men in the American Civil War.

Historian Elizabeth D. Leonard writes that, according to various estimates, between five hundred and one thousand women enlisted as soldiers on both sides of the war, disguised as men.[1]

  1. ^ Leonard, Elizabeth D. (1999). All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 165, 310–311. ISBN 978-0-393-04712-7. OCLC 40543151.