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Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, 1899-1900. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Library of Congress (Manuscript Division). Stearns, Amanda Akin. The Lady Nurse of Ward E. New York, New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1909. "The Diary of a Civil War Nurse." Washington, D.C.: Albert H. Small ...
Lesniak, Rhonda Goodman. "Expanding the role of women as nurses during the American Civil War." Advances in Nursing Science 32.1 (2009): 33-42. online; Maher, Mary Denis. To bind up the wounds: Catholic sister nurses in the US Civil War (LSU Press, 1999). Pokorny, Marie E. "An historical perspective of Confederate nursing during the Civil War ...
The First Battle of Bull Run—also known as the First Battle of Manassas—on July 21, 1861, was a Southern tactical victory that opened the Civil War in the first major hand-to-hand combat. Despite the word of victory, the Confederate capital city was ill-prepared for the hundreds of wounded soldiers who subsequently poured in, many arriving ...
National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War (16 P) Pages in category "American Civil War nurses" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total.
The Confederate Conscription Acts, 1862 to 1864, were a series of measures taken by the Confederate government to procure the manpower needed to fight the American Civil War. The First Conscription Act, passed April 16, 1862, made any white male between 18 and 35 years old liable to three years of military service.
My Story of the War: The Civil War Memories of the Famous Nurse, Relief Organizer and Suffragette (1887/1995) with Introduction by Nina Silber. New York: Da Capo Press; ISBN 0-3068-0658-4; The story of my life; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years (1897). Cooperative Womanhood in the State (1891).
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
The National Union Party, commonly the Union Party or Unionists, was a wartime coalition of Republicans, War Democrats, and border state Unconditional Unionists that supported the Lincoln Administration during the American Civil War. It held the 1864 National Union Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president and Andrew Johnson for ...