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Lincoln's Fifth Wheel: the Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission
by William Quentin Maxwell, Allan Nevins. 372 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter I Making and Testing the Fifth Wheel

Chapter II The Soldier and the Sanitary Commission, 1861

Chapter III The Army Hospitals, Surgeons, and Nurses, 1861

Chapter IV Ambulance Corps, General Supplies, And Medicines, 1861

Chapter V

Chapter VI Mixed Blessings

Chapter VII The Melancholy Battles

Chapter VIII Battles Within Battles

Chapter IX The Ledger of Battle

Chapter X Wheels of Battle

Chapter XI The Wheel of Fortune

Chapter XII The Nettles of War

Chapter XIII From Fifth Wheel to Red Cross

Chapter XIV Conclusion

Biographical Notes

Sources

Bibliography

Index
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Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War
by Jeanie Attie. 298 pgs.

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During the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission attempted to replace female charity networks and traditions of voluntarism with a centralized organization that would ensure women's support for the war effort served an elite, liberal vision of nationhood. Coming after years of debate over women's place in the democracy and status as citizens, soldier relief work offered women an occasion to demonstrate their patriotism and their rights to inclusion in the body politic. Exploring the economic and ideological conflicts that surrounded women's unpaid labors on behalf of the Union army, Jeanie Attie reveals the impact of the Civil War on the gender structure of nineteenth-century America. She illuminates how the war became a testing ground for the gendering of political fights and the ideological separation of men's and women's domains of work and influence.
Attie draws on letters by hundreds of women in which they reflect on their political awakenings at the war's outbreak and their increasing skepticism of national policies as the conflict dragged on. Her book integrates the Civil War into the history of American gender relations and the development of feminism, providing a nuanced analysis of the relationship among gender construction, class development, and state formation in nineteenth-century America.

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Prologue

1: We All Have Views Now: Tapping Female Patriotism

2: Imposing "A Masculine Discipline": a Nationalist Elite and the U.S. Sanitary Commission

3: For the 'Boys in Blue' : Organizing the Homefront

4: A Swindling Concern: Homefront Charges of Corruption

5: Bumping into Each Other: Managers, Canvassers, and Competition

6: Half-Savage Individualism: The Ussc Confronts the Female Pubic>

7: Fair Mania: Branch Autonomy and Local Civic Pride

8: It Is a People's War: The Ussc Retreats

9: Becoming History: Appraising Female Warwork

Conclusion: The Lessons of War

Bibliography

Index
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Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy
by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. 216 pgs.

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Preface

1. Mrs. Anderson's Re-Enforcement

2. the Great Uprising

3. One Hundred Thousand Nightingales

4. Ninety-Two Respected Gentlewomen

5. "A Fifth Wheel to the Coach"

6. Banners in the Dust

7. Scrubbing the Lords of Creation

9. Heroines of the Peninsula

10. Potatoes and Onions Conquer Vicksburg

11. a Lady with a Flask

12. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!

13. Mother Bickerdyke Marches Through Georgia

Epilogue Happily Ever Afterward

Bibliographical Note
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Nursing, the Finest Art: An Illustrated History ("United States Sanitary Commission" begins on p. 250)
by M. Patricia Donahue. 535 pgs.

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NURSING, THE FINEST ART traces the social, political, and economic history of nursing from its origins through contemporary practice. Designed for nurses in all specialties and settings, this edition includes new material on nurses' involvement in recent world events; more international nursing information; and updated and expanded content on the historical significance of nursing associations. Perfect for all nurses with an interest in the history of their profession and an appreciation of fine artwork. Spanish version of 1st edition also available, ISBN: 84-7592-239-2

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Nursing the Finsest Art: An Illustrated History

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Foreword

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

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Unit 1: The Origin of Nursing

Unit 2: Ancient Civilizations

Unit 3: Nursing in a Christian World

Unit 4: Nursing in a Changing World Aristocratic and Military Influences

Unit 5: Nursing in Transition the Dark Period and the Dawn of Modern Times

Unit 6: The Development of Nursing in America

Unit 7: Advancing Joward New Frontiers

Unit 8: Nurses in Action Wars of the Twentieth Century

Unit 9: The Age of Expansion

Unit 10: An Era of Change and Challenge

Unit 11: Contact and Diversity

List of Plates

References

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Discussion of the United States Sanitary Commission begins on p. 249)
by Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber. 426 pgs.

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Foreword

Part I Imperiled Unions

Chapter 1 the Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Chapter 2 the Politics, of Yeoman Households in South Carolina

Part II Men at War

Chapter 3 Soldiering, Manhood, and Coming of Age: a Northern Volunteer

Chapter 5 "I's a Man Now": Gender and African American Men

Part III Women at War

Chapter 6 Arranging a Doll's House: Refined Women as Union Nurses

Chapter 7 Acting Her Part: Narratives of Union Women Spies

Chapter 8 "Missing in Action": Women of the Confederacy

Chapter 9 Women and Guerrilla Warfare

Part IV the Southern Homefront

Chapter 10 Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War

Chapter 11 "Since the War Broke Out": the Marriage of Kate and William Mclure

Chapter 12 the Children of Jubilee: African American Childhood in Wartime

Chapter 13 Wartime Dialogues on Illicit Sex: White Women and Black Men

Part V the Northern Homefront

Chapter 14 Warwork and the Crisis of Domesticity in the North

Chapter 15 Writing Out the War: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Averted Gaze

Part VI the War Comes Home

Chapter 16 Intemperate Men, Spiteful Women, and Jefferson Davis

14 Chapter 17 Reconstructing Freedwomen

Chapter 18 Reshaping the Bonds of Womanhood: Divorce in Reconstruction North Carolina

Epilogue

Bibliography

Notes

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Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia ("United States Sanitary Commission" begins on p. 387)
by Judith E. Harper. 480 pgs.

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For more information, including a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Women During the Civil War website.Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia is the first A-Z reference work to offer a panoramic presentation of the contributions, achievements, and personal stories of American women during one of the most turbulent eras of the nation's history. Incorporating the most recent scholarship as well as excerpts from diaries, letters, newspapers, and other primary source documents, this Encyclopedia encompasses the wartime experiences of famous and lesser-known women of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds throughout the United States during the Civil War era.

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Introduction

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Bibliography

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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. 800 pgs.

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Introduction

Woman's Work in the Civil War

Part I Superintendent of Nurses

Dorothea L. Dix

Part II Ladies Who Ministered to the Sick and Wounded in Camp Field and General Hospitals

Mrs. Eliza Potter

Clara Harlowe Barton

Helen Louise Gilson

Mrs. John Harris

Mrs. Eliza C. Porter

Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke

Margaret E. Breckinridge

Mrs. Stephen Barker

Amy M. Bradley

Mrs. Arabella G. Barlow

Mrs. Nellie Maria Taylor

Mrs. Adaline Tyler

Mrs. William H. Holstein

Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey

Mrs. Sarah R. Johnston

Emily E. Parsons

Mrs. Almira Fales

Miss Cornelia Hancock

Mrs Mary Morris Husband

Hospital Transport Service

Other Labors of Some of the Members of the Hospital Transport Corps

Katherine P. Wormeley

The Misses Woolsey

Anna Maria Ross

Mrs. G. T. M. Davis

Miss Mary J. Safford

Mrs. Lydia G. Parrish

Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer

Miss Melcenia Elliott

Mary Dwight Pettes

Louisa Maertz

Mrs. Harriet R. Colfax

Miss Clara Davis

Mrs. R. H. Spencer

Mrs. Harriet Foote Hawley

Ellen E. Mitchell

Miss Jessie Home

M. Vance and M. A. Blackmar

H. A. Dada and S. E. Hall

Mrs. Sarah P. Edson

Miss Maria M. C. Hall

The Hospital Corps at the Naval Academy Hospital, Annapolis

Other Labors of Some of the Members of the Annapolis Hospital Corps

Mrs. A. H. and Miss S. H. Gibbons

Mrs. E. J. Russell

Mrs. Mary W. Lee

Miss Cornelia M. Tompkins

Mrs. Anna C. McMeens

Mrs. Jerusha R. Small

Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield

Mrs. E. Thomas, and Miss Morris

Mrs. Shepard Wells

Mrs. E. C. Witherell

Miss Phebe Allen

Mrs. Edwin Greble

Mrs. Isabella Fogg

Mrs. E. E. George

Mrs Charlotte E. McKay

Mrs. Fanny L. Ricketts

Mrs. John S. Phelps

Mrs. Jane R. Munsell

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.

Woman's Central Association of Relief

Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio

New England Women's Auxiliary Association

Northwestern Sanitary Com· Mission

Mrs. A. H. Hoge

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore

General Aid Society for the Army, Buffalo

Michigan Soldiers' Aid Society

Women's Pennsylvania Branch of U. S. Sanitary Commission

Wisconsin Soldiers' Aid Society

Pittsburg Branch, U. S. Sanitary Commission

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mendenhall

Department of the South

Saint Louis Ladies' Union Aid Society

Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia

Women's Relief Association of Brooklyn and Long Island

Ladies' Union Relief Associations of Baltimore

Mrs. C. T. Fenn

Mrs. James Harlan

New England Soldiers' Relief Association

Part IV Ladies Distinguished for Services Among the Freed Men and Refugees

Mrs. Frances D. Gage

Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy

Maria R. Mann

Sarah J. Hagar

Mrs. Josephine R. Griffin

Mrs. M. M. Hallowell

Other Friends of the Freed Men and Refugees

Part V Ladies Distinguished for Services in Soldiers' Homes, Volunteer Refreshment Saloons, on Government Hospital Transports, Etc.

Mrs. O. E. Hosmer

Miss Hattie Wiswall

Mrs. Lucy E. Starr

Charlotte Bradford

Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia

Mrs. R. M. Bigelow

Miss Sharpless and Associates

Part VI Ladies Distinguished for Other Services in the National Cause

Mrs. Annie Etheridge

Delphine P. Baker

Mrs. S. Burger Stearns

Barbara Frietchie

Mrs. Hetty M. McEwen

Other Defenders of the Flag

Military Heroines

The Women of Gettysburg

Loyal Women of the South

Miss Hetty A. Jones

Final Chapter The Faithful but Less Conspicuous Laborers

Index of Names of Women Whose Services are Recorded in This Book

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