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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience » Read Now
by L. P. Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan, Henry W. Bellows. 800 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR ," " PHILANTHROPIC RESULTS OF THE WAR ," " OUR...of Congress, in the year 1867...effort--Hospital nurses--Hired nurses...American women in the late...
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Seldom Thanked, Never Praised, and Scarcely Recognized: Gender and Racism in Civil War Hospitals, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Jane E. Schultz. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...itself late in the twentieth century...literature on Civil War relief work...were hired as nurses to carry food...employed as naval nurses in part because...Precedents:...
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Battle Time: Gender, Modernity, and Confederate Hospitals, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Cheryl A. Wells. 22 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...based on the clock. In terms of Civil War hospitals, this meant that nurses functioned...imposed by the clock on Civil War hospitals and nurses. It reordered work and in...
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Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865 » Read Now
by Cornelia Hancock, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, Jean V. Berlin. 173 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America". From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the suffering of soldiers. She was one of the great heroines of the Union. Cornelia Hancock served in field and evacuating hospitals...
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She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America". From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the suffering of soldiers. She was one of the great heroines of the Union. Cornelia Hancock served in field and evacuating hospitals, in a contraband camp, and (defying authority) on the battlefield. Her letters to family members are witty, unsentimental, and full of indignation about the neglect of wounded soldiers and black refugees.
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New Light on the Lady with the Lamp: Susan-Mary Grant Looks at Florence Nightingale's Influence on Medical Care in the Crimea and the US Civil War, in History Today » Read Now
by Susan-Mary Grant. 7 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...involved in nursing the wounded during the Civil War, including...voluntary nurses there, or...frequently seen as the British `counterpart to US Civil War nurses such as...
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Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy » Read Now
by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. 216 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...battle. The U.S.O., the American Womens Voluntary...Services, and most other War Relief agencies present...military services find in it the first great...victors in the...
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Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice » Read Now
by Frank Moore. 588 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...THE HEROINE OF SHETECK LAKE. A STORY OF BORDER SUFFERING. THE indirect and remote sufferings occasioned by the great civil war in America have been almost as great as the...
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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (Chap. 6 "Arranging a Doll's House: Refined Women as Union Nurses") » Read Now
by Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber. 426 pgs.

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...the events leading up to the American Civil War, in a scholarly deluge that defies...disparate elements together until the Civil War, when in many places it flew...
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chap. 4 "We Must Go To Work, Too") » Read Now
by Drew Gilpin Faust. 330 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business", they found...
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When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business", they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis. According to Faust, the most privileged of southern women experienced the destruction of war as both a social and a personal upheaval: the prerogatives of whiteness and the protections of ladyhood began to dissolve as the Confederacy weakened and crumbled. Faust draws on the eloquent diaries, letters, essays, memoirs, fiction, and poetry of more than 500 of the Confederacy's elite women to show that with the disintegration of slavery and the disappearance of prewar prosperity, every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. But it was not just females who worried about the changing nature of gender relations in the wartime South; Confederate political discourse and popular culture - plays, novels, songs, and paintings - also negotiated the changed meanings of womanhood. Exploring elite Confederate women's wartime experiences as wives, mothers, nurses, teachers, slave managers, authors, readers, and survivors, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South. Mothers of Inventionshow how people managed both to change and not to change and how their personal transformations related to a larger world of society and politics. Beautifully written and eminently readable, this study of women and war is a
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In Search of Women of African Descent Who Served in the Civil War Union Navy, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now
by Lisa Y. King. 4 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...serving as nurses in the Union Navy during the Civil War should not...Rover, of the Mississippi...Contract nurses were civilians...enlisted in the military...during the...
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Discussion of nurses in the civil war begins on p. 477) » Read Now
by James M. McPherson. 910 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events...
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Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
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Clara Barton: In the Service of Humanity » Read Now
by David H. Burton. 176 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her bitterly contested ejection from office which clouded her last...
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This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her bitterly contested ejection from office which clouded her last decade. Clara Barton (1821-1912) led a life "in the service of humanity." Undoubtedly heroic and undoubtedly generous in her impulse to aid others, she nonetheless remained a self-centered individual who could brook neither criticism nor ingratitude. Her life story is told here with sympathy and understanding without sacrificing candor or honesty.
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