Essay+-+Civil+War-+Women+~RAP

__Essay???????__ Women, all the chores and care are left on their shoulders. But in the time period of the Civil War women were stuck with a lot more than heart-break. They were left with hard labor and emotional stress. Every women days is already hecktict, but imagine having your own tasks and on top of it your husband's. Life like that was normal if you lived during the civil war. Back-breaking, head-pounding, physical labor was nearly half of the pain women faced in one day. Anything you might think of that men would normally do was now left in the wife's hands.

Farming, running taverns, clothes, and volunteer services those are the main points of a women's day. Now, half of those examples are men's work and the other two were women's work. Farming and taverns were kept going by men for the most part and women had clothes and volunteer work to complete. But all went to the women in 1861.

Farming was the most important of them all because that was were they got their food. Women cook for not only themselves and their children, but for soldiers when they were volunteering at the local hospital. Farming as a whole has a lot of smaller chores beneath it. Not only cooking, but harvesting crops needed to sell at their tavern was the best way to earn money. Women spent numorous amounts of time inside the kitchen cooking for others when they could spend the time working in ways that would benefit themselves.

Taverns were a big deal in the 19th century. For many people in was the only way to obtain money. Often taverns were also used as a bed and breakfast, which doubled the total amount of labor the women must do. Constant complaining of customers and working really took a toll on the women mentally and physically. Exhaustion from lack of sleep and or too much work doesn't make anything easier. Guest want top of the line service, hot meals, warm beds, and so do you, but if want to make money the guest comes first.

Clothing is a repeated cycle day after day. Hand washing, drying, sewing, and ofcourse buying the needed materials. Women desired to be a multitasker in a time like this. Cleaning their clothes and many others if they ran a tavern or volunteered at hospitals. Back aching was easily accompanied by sore hands due to the process of cleaning and sewing clothes. It was nervewreking knowing you had to exhaust all your time and energy into one assignment when you could fill your day with ten different individual jobs.

Volunteering was always appreciated and needed during the civil war. Women organized bazaars, fairs, concerts, raffles, and dances to raise money for army supplies. Donating not only their time, but needed supplies like: socks, undergarments, shirts, gloves, blankets, shoes, comforters, handkerchiefs, scarves, bandages, and food. Teamwork had to be one of your strong qualities inorder to exceed in a job like this.

Women went above and beyond expectations to keep things running smoothly. Never did they get a break. Women still have occupations where they perform a man's work. Stress in known for coming with hard work. Little did they know that so much pain would additionally occur. Plenty of women continued this tough work because their husband and or son never returned from the war. Some might say they have it tough or "no one ever thinks of what we go through". In most cases it's true.