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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience
By L. P. Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan
866 pages
- Contributors:
- Publisher:
- Zeigler, McCurdy
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
- Publication year:
- 1867
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Table of contents
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- Title Page 1
- Preface 5
- Contents 9
- Introduction 39
- Woman's Work in the Civil War 49
- Part I Superintendent of Nurses 79
- Dorothea L. Dix 81
- Part II Ladies Who Ministered to the Sick and Wounded in Camp Field and General Hospitals 93
- Mrs. Eliza Potter 95
- Clara Harlowe Barton 111
- Helen Louise Gilson 133
- Mrs. John Harris 149
- Mrs. Eliza C. Porter 161
- Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke 172
- Margaret E. Breckinridge 187
- Mrs. Stephen Barker 200
- Title Page 1
- Preface 5
- Contents 9
- Introduction 39
- Woman's Work in the Civil War 49
- Part I Superintendent of Nurses 79
- Dorothea L. Dix 81
- Part II Ladies Who Ministered to the Sick and Wounded in Camp Field and General Hospitals 93
- Mrs. Eliza Potter 95
- Clara Harlowe Barton 111
- Helen Louise Gilson 133
- Mrs. John Harris 149
- Mrs. Eliza C. Porter 161
- Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke 172
- Margaret E. Breckinridge 187
- Mrs. Stephen Barker 200
- Amy M. Bradley 212
- Mrs. Arabella G. Barlow 225
- Mrs. Nellie Maria Taylor 234
- Mrs. Adaline Tyler 241
- Mrs. William H. Holstein 251
- Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey 260
- Mrs. Sarah R. Johnston 269
- Emily E. Parsons 273
- Mrs. Almira Fales 279
- Miss Cornelia Hancock 284
- Mrs Mary Morris Husband 287
- Hospital Transport Service 299
- Other Labors of Some of the Members of the Hospital Transport Corps 316
- Katherine P. Wormeley 318
- The Misses Woolsey 324
- Anna Maria Ross 343
- Mrs. G. T. M. Davis 352
- Miss Mary J. Safford 357
- Mrs. Lydia G. Parrish 362
- Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer 374
- Miss Melcenia Elliott 380
- Mary Dwight Pettes 385
- Louisa Maertz 390
- Mrs. Harriet R. Colfax 395
- Miss Clara Davis 400
- Mrs. R. H. Spencer 404
- Mrs. Harriet Foote Hawley 416
- Ellen E. Mitchell 420
- Miss Jessie Home 427
- M. Vance and M. A. Blackmar 429
- H. A. Dada and S. E. Hall 431
- Mrs. Sarah P. Edson 440
- Miss Maria M. C. Hall 448
- The Hospital Corps at the Naval Academy Hospital, Annapolis 455
- Other Labors of Some of the Members of the Annapolis Hospital Corps 461
- Mrs. A. H. and Miss S. H. Gibbons 467
- Mrs. E. J. Russell 477
- Mrs. Mary W. Lee 480
- Miss Cornelia M. Tompkins 489
- Mrs. Anna C. McMeens 491
- Mrs. Jerusha R. Small 493
- Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield 495
- Mrs. E. Thomas, and Miss Morris 496
- Mrs. Shepard Wells 497
- Mrs. E. C. Witherell 499
- Miss Phebe Allen 502
- Mrs. Edwin Greble 503
- Mrs. Isabella Fogg 505
- Mrs. E. E. George 511
- Mrs Charlotte E. McKay 514
- Mrs. Fanny L. Ricketts 517
- Mrs. John S. Phelps 520
- Mrs. Jane R. Munsell 522
- Part III Ladies Who Organized Aid Societies, and Solicited, Received and Forwarded Supplies to the Hospitals, Devoting Their Whole Time to the Work, Etc., Etc. 525
- Woman's Central Association of Relief 527
- Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio 540
- New England Women's Auxiliary Association 553
- Northwestern Sanitary Com· Mission 560
- Mrs. A. H. Hoge 562
- Mrs. Mary A. Livermore 577
- General Aid Society for the Army, Buffalo 590
- Michigan Soldiers' Aid Society 593
- Women's Pennsylvania Branch of U. S. Sanitary Commission 596
- Wisconsin Soldiers' Aid Society 607
- Pittsburg Branch, U. S. Sanitary Commission 615
- Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mendenhall 617
- Department of the South 621
- Saint Louis Ladies' Union Aid Society 630
- Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia 643
- Women's Relief Association of Brooklyn and Long Island 650
- Ladies' Union Relief Associations of Baltimore 659
- Mrs. C. T. Fenn 665
- Mrs. James Harlan 676
- New England Soldiers' Relief Association 679
- Part IV Ladies Distinguished for Services Among the Freed Men and Refugees 681
- Mrs. Frances D. Gage 683
- Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy 691
- Maria R. Mann 697
- Sarah J. Hagar 704
- Mrs. Josephine R. Griffin 707
- Mrs. M. M. Hallowell 710
- Other Friends of the Freed Men and Refugees 713
- Part V Ladies Distinguished for Services in Soldiers' Homes, Volunteer Refreshment Saloons, on Government Hospital Transports, Etc. 717
- Mrs. O. E. Hosmer 719
- Miss Hattie Wiswall 725
- Mrs. Lucy E. Starr 728
- Charlotte Bradford 731
- Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia 733
- Mrs. R. M. Bigelow 738
- Miss Sharpless and Associates 741
- Part VI Ladies Distinguished for Other Services in the National Cause 745
- Mrs. Annie Etheridge 747
- Delphine P. Baker 754
- Mrs. S. Burger Stearns 760
- Barbara Frietchie 761
- Mrs. Hetty M. McEwen 764
- Other Defenders of the Flag 767
- Military Heroines 770
- The Women of Gettysburg 775
- Loyal Women of the South 779
- Miss Hetty A. Jones 783
- Final Chapter The Faithful but Less Conspicuous Laborers 787
- Index of Names of Women Whose Services are Recorded in This Book 795