"And just kind of layered on clothes, wore loose clothing ... a common ailment for Civil War soldiers. Most women who were discovered posing as men during the war were found out after getting ...

The Civil War had begun ... and the men were paid as laborers rather than as soldiers. Black soldiers therefore received $7 per month, plus a $3 clothing allowance, while white soldiers received ...

Plus, thousands of Civil War recruits were young, beardless men, so the smooth skin of a ... “dressed in boy’s clothing, came to America as a stowaway the first year of the war,” according ...

In the Civil War South, where nearly one out of five white men of military age lost their ... women announced their grief through their clothing. Wartime shortages prompted some women, unable ...

The Second Civil War began in 1646 ... of women being directly involved in the Civil Wars. Some women wore men’s clothing and armour so that they could join the fighting. A woman called Nan ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Syria’s Latakia region. For the Kurds, the bloodshed only ...