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The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years

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This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. (Jessica Ziparo - W) shirt All bullets are carded andby 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