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During the American Civil War, sexual behavior, gender roles, and attitudes were affected by the conflict, especially by the absence of menfolk at home and the emergence of new roles for women such as nursing. The advent of photography and easier media distribution, for example, allowed for greater access to sexual material for the common soldier.
Annie Bell with patients after the Battle of Nashville, circa 1864" (U.S. Sanitary Commission photograph), in "Civil War Nurses," in "Civil War Women," in "Understanding War Through Imagery: The Civil War in American Memory." Carlisle, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, retrieved online May 16, 2018.
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 ...
At the outbreak of the war, Bucklin was in her late 20s to early 30s, living independently as a seamstress in Auburn, New York. [3] She enlisted her services for the Union effort, and left for the front on September 17, 1862, unaccompanied. [7] As one of the many women serving under Dorothea Dix, Bucklin's service began at the Judiciary ...
Favor, Lesli J. Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2004. ISBN 0-8239-4452-2 OCLC 54618433; Frank, Lisa Tendrich. Women in the American Civil War. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2008. ISBN 1-85109-605-1 OCLC 247053830; Garrison, Webb B. Amazing Women of the Civil War. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1999.
During the American Civil War, she played a role in the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian agency set up to coordinate the volunteer efforts of women and men who wanted to contribute to the war effort, with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rev. Henry Bellows.
She joins the ranks of women like Clara Barton who responded to the urgent needs which were presented during the Civil War, especially after the Battle of First Bull Run when the realities of warfare became stark in both the Union and Confederate capital cities. They helped develop nursing into the skilled profession it was to become. Sally ...
She was president of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War from 1906 to 1909. [7] [8] As president she advocated for nurses' pensions, and gathered data on surviving war nurses to report the need to Congress. [9] [10] "I plead for the poor, aged woman who nursed back to life many a sick and wounded hero of the battlefield ...