This site from The Civil War News discusses the story of the women of Georgia's Roswell mills who were forced from their homes and jobs during the American Civil War. The factories which employed these women were destroyed, and as a result these women were unable to return to their homes and eventually disappeared into history.

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women millworkers, civil war homefront, civil war millworkers, southern homefront, southern refugees, southern textile mill, homefront in the south

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• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)