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Complete the assignment as directed by your teacher

Research a female veteran buried in Alexandria National Cemetery and write an op-ed for a local newspaper that explains her contributions and the importance of this cemetery to Alexandria.

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Using 5 primary sources, design a museum exhibit for the proposed National Women’s History Museum that traces the contributions, advances, and hardships of women in the military.

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Sources

Superintendent Davis to Col. R.N. Batchelder, July 16, 1884,[File], [393], National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.

"Army Nurses Act," Congressional Statue, 1892, Library of Congress.

Secretary of Defense James Forrestal (center) congratulates (L to R) Colonel Geraldine May, Colonel Mary A. Hallaren, Captain Joy Bright Hancock, and Major Julia E. Hamblet, after the passage of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.," Photograph, 1948, Library of Congress.

"Memorializing Women: Interview with Dr. Bryce Carpenter," Interview, 2018, RRCHNM.

To Learn More

For A Woman: The Fight for Pensions for Civil War Army Nurses, Honors Thesis, College of William and Mary, 2013

Tubs and Suds: Civil War laundress in the field, camp, and hospital, Camp Chase Gazette, 2003

Union Army Laundresses, National Genealogical Society Magazine, 2016

Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America, Jane Schultz (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill and London, 2004)