Edmonds claimed that she’d served as a spy for the Union ... to the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veteran ...

Now able to account for all her women spies - alive or dead - she compiled a report for London. Of the 39 women Vera sent to war, 27 returned alive, many after sustained torture, but 12 lost their ...

Women ran businesses, were spies, preachers ... women "rose to the occasion and played a remarkable role in the Civil War", said Cromwell Museum curator Stuart Orme It aims to challenge the ...

Dressed as men, women took on a wide range of military roles in the Civil War. Sarah Edmonds participated in the Peninsula Campaign as a soldier, spy, and courier—and even ended up working as a ...

(Here are 35 horrifying images of World War II.) Here are masters of deception: the most legendary female spies in history: ...

A truce has been declared in Ethiopia's 16-month civil war ... call "rape as a weapon of war". The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal has spoken to some of the affected women in the neighbouring Amhara ...