April 2026 Meeting Summary

At our dinner meeting on April 8th, Round Table member Arnold W. Schofield gave an excellent program titled: “Remembering Women Warriors.” Attendance at the meeting was 48.

One of the least known and almost forgotten aspects of the Civil War is that individual women served as combat soldiers. Contemporary research indicates that 250 women soldiers served in the Union and Confederate armies. There were probably more, but since all the women disguised themselves as men and used a masculine alias or name, the total number of women warriors will probably never be known.

Arnold’s program was an overview of these women warriors and he focused on the who, why, when, and where they served. His program also included a description of primary resources and mentioned several known female soldiers from Kansas and Missouri. Arnold emphasized the story of one female solder who lived in Kansas for eight or so years after the Civil War.