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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.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, American Civil War nurse. Mary Opal Wolanin (1910 – 1997), American nurse and expert in eldercare; Sarah Palmer Young (1830-1908), American Civil War nurse, author of a memoir. Tome Yoshida (1876-1963), Japanese nurse. Sophie Zahrtmann (1841–1925), deaconess, nurse, head of Copenhagen's Deaconess ...
Bell was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. She left Ohio in September 1863 to join the Civil War effort. [1] Her work began with her husband A.O. Hartley, who was a hospital steward, at Covington Barracks in Kentucky. While the two were in camp, there were outbreaks of diseases such as smallpox and spotted fever. [2]
Memorial to U.S. Civil War nurses in the Massachusetts State House: "Angels of mercy and life amid scenes of conflict and death" At the Encampment of 1892, the group attracted 35 members from all across the United States. Therefore, the group's name was changed to the National Association of Army Nurses of the Late War. [3]
National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War (16 P) Pages in category "American Civil War nurses" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 ...
Pages in category "National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 work these women did in providing sanitary supplies and blankets to soldiers helped lessen the spread of diseases during the Civil War. In the North, their work was supported by the U.S. Sanitary Commission. At the end of the war, many ladies' aid societies in the South transformed into memorial associations. [2]