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Pages in category "American Civil War nurses" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
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]
Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville, Minnesota: Edinborough Press. ISBN 1-889020-04-4. Massey, Mary Elizabeth (1994). Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-8213-3. Schultz, Jane (2004). Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: The University of North ...
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 ...
Lucy Higgs Nichols (April 10, 1838 – January 25, 1915) was an African American woman who escaped slavery.She served as a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 – October 6, 1912) was an American nurse, educator and memoirist. Born into slavery in coastal Georgia, she is known for being the first African-American nurse during the American Civil War.
Allen Allensworth (1842–1914) famous African-American American Civil War soldier who started as a nurse; Annie Altschul (1919-2001) Britain's first mental health nurse pioneer; Sir Jonathan Asbridge, first president of the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council; Charles Atangana (1880–1943), paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane in Cameroon