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For quite some time, women in the 1800's were less than equal when it came to the sexes, living extremely restricted lives. They were not given opinion, voice, equality, or freedom to live the life they desired. However, this significantly began to change when war broke out. Women had many reasons for stepping forward from the shadows of sexism during the Civil War. Previously, the usual task for a colonial woman during a battle, was to wait at home worried for their husbands to return. When the Civil War happened, the women would no longer stand to watch their husbands leave for war and “refused to release their hold upon the men of their households although the government had taken them out of the home and organized them into an army.” (Myers 156) Many women did not want to see happen, which happened so many times before, in which the men would go off to fight and men would then care for the wounded. T