ABSTRACT
The South produced more senior military personnel, more faculty in military training institutions, and contributed more dollars and resources to earlier wars than other regions of the United States. In the early twentieth century, World War I was the first major war America experienced that necessitated the national mobilization of soldiers and resources since the American Civil War. The South produced more senior military personnel, more faculty in military training institutions, and contributed more dollars and resources to earlier wars than other regions of the United States. Though the southern military tradition historically did not embrace southern women as warriors or protagonists, southern women have always been essential to the propagation of the South as a fertile ground for recruitment of warriors. Though women warriors served as disguised men in American conflicts as early as the American Revolution, they have also served as noncombatants as nurses, spies, and a long list of other vital roles.
