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The story traces lost and forgotten history of the U.S. Civil War. It is a firm belief that the Civil War was a man's fight. The only Images of women during that conflict center on self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, or brave ladies maintaining the home front. The men, of course, marched off to war, lived in germ-ridden camps, engaged in heinous battle, languished in appalling prison camps, and died horribly, yet heroically. This conventional picture of gender roles during the Civil War does not tell the entire story. Men were not the only ones to fight that war. Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. As secret soldiers they assumed new names, and disguised themselves as men. There are six documented women who fought, got wounded, got sick, or were taken prisoner and endured it all while pregnant.