This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) pin When John M

When John M

nor did he excoriate the South for the sin of slavery

This documentary explores soldiers' everyday lives through the personal effects they carry into war

which began in April 1861 and came to an end in the last days of April 1865

the politically charged front-page news caught President Lincoln and the War Department by surprise and forever tarnished Milroy’s career

This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) pin When John Mby 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