Women in Central Virginia

Document Based Question:
Supporting the cause: war tests women's committment to the Confederacy


Assignment: Write a document-based question essay which uses the evidence in the documents to argue for an answer to the following question.

"Despite enduring considerable hardship during the Civil War, southern women remained committed to the cause of southern independence throughout the war."

Assess the validity of this statement using the following documents as evidence:

Documents:

A. Letter from Ann Miles to C.C. Cocke

B. Letter from Micajah Woods to John Woods

C. Excerpts of letters from Mary Robinson Blackford to her husband Capt. Blackford

D. Flier of the "Lynchburg Hospital Association"

E. Richmond Enquirer review of Augusta Jane Evans' novel, Macaria


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