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Victorian concepts of gender in America contributed to the continuation of the guerrilla warfare occurring at the Kansas and Missouri border. Popular legend often ignores that women were playing a large role in the continual supply to guerrilla troops of clothing and food, but also crucial information of the movements of Union troops. Even some involved in this conflict, like Union General Thomas Ewing, portrayed the women as victims of the war, not perpetrators. (Sarah M)

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