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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.
Chief among the achievements of this association were the efforts of its leaders to secure recognition and benefits for the women who had served as nurses during the American Civil War. Pensions: In 1892, Congress passed a law which allowed for a pension of $12 per month for all nurses who had been hired and paid by the Government. [ 3 ]
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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]
She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. [1] Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. [2]
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 total.
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 ...
Mary O'Connell, SC (better known as Sister Anthony) (1814 – December 8, 1897) was an Irish immigrant to the United States, who became a Catholic religious sister.A Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, she served with distinction as a nurse on the front lines of the American Civil War.