Answer:
In the Northern states, women organized ladies' aid societies to supply the Union troops with everything they needed, from food (they baked and canned and planted fruit and vegetable gardens for the soldiers) to clothing (they sewed and laundered uniforms, knitted socks and gloves, mended blankets and embroidered quilts and pillowcases) to cash (they organized door-to-door fundraising campaigns, county fairs and performances of all kinds to raise money for medical supplies and other necessities).
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/women-in-the-civil-war#:~:text=In%20the%20Northern%20states%2C%20women,gloves%2C%20mended%20blankets%20and%20embroidered
