Some Civil War Women to Research...
Louisa May Alcott
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Belle Boyd
Mary Chestnut
Pauline Cushman
Varina Davis
Dorothea Dix
Sara Edmonds
Rose Greenhow
Grimke Sisters
Julia Ward Howe
Harriet Jacobs
Lucretia Mott
Kate Chase Sprague
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Kate Chase Sprague
Elizabeth Van Lew
Women at the Battle of Gettysburg and women in battle at http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews111.shtml
Women serving as soldiers
Women spies
Women nurses
Some other links:
http://www.historynet.com/women-in-the-civil-war
http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/Women_and_the_Civil_War.pdf
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/untold-stories/female-soldiers-in-the-civil.html