"Civil War Women Prisoners of War" Topic

"Many of the arguments against women fighting in combat is the fear that they will become prisoners of war. Documentation proves that some soldiers who were discovered to be women during the Civil War were briefly imprisoned. Madame Collier was a Union soldier from East Tennessee who was captured and imprisoned at Belle Isle, Virginia. She continued concealing her gender, but another prisoner learned her secret and reported it to Confederate authorities, who sent her North under a flag of truce.

At Castle Thunder in Richmond, Virginia approximately one hundred female inmates were held throughout the war. Although Confederate authorities created a department at the prison specifically for the detention of "depraved and abandoned" women – prostitutes, spies and smugglers – most female inmates were political prisoners, the most famous of which was Dr. Mary Edwards Walker…"

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Amicalement
Armand

It provides a period description of one of the prisoners as "ugly and skinny." Guess that pretty much puts an end to any hopes of Hollywood doing a Civil War version of MASH!

Still, maybe somebody will make a movie about Louisa May Alcott's work as a nurse in Washington.

Grelber

Agree with your idea my friend.
A movie would be great!

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ARmand