As Mike is drawn into their struggle

margins get thinner

Change can be hard

But one day during a not-so-routine eye test his bleak perspective is blown apart

Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War Cake Baking As Mike is drawn intoHidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant the women in these micro drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy, from tending to the wounded on the