Worldwide, almost 3 in 5 women killed were killed by their partners or family in 2017. Most of the time, face of the perpetrator is a familiar one. | UN Women

As a Union burial detail was burying bodies after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, they made a startling discovery near Cemetery Ridge. Among the bodies covering the ground from one of the Confederate attacks during the battle was the body of a dead woman wearing the uniform of a Confederate private. While not much is known about this woman, she was one of many women to don a soldier’s uniform and fight in the Civil War on both the Union and Confederate sides. Learn more: https://www.battl