This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) Section- African American Soldeirs Slater always wore a veil

Slater always wore a veil over her face adding to the mystique

Grief-stricken civilians

the armies became locked in combat

Lincoln’s move toward ending slavery and his unwillingness to compromise on emancipation spurred the white supremacist Booth and ultimately resulted in the president’s untimely death

This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) Section- African American Soldeirs Slater always wore a veilby Jessica Ziparo In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain well paid, intellectually challenging work in a country and time that typically excluded females from such channels of labor. Thousands of