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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 ]
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 .
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 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]
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 ...
Nurse during the American Civil War Emily E. Lansbury Wilson Woodley (May 26, 1835 – May 15, 1908) was an army nurse during the American Civil War , president of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War from 1895 to 1898.
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
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 ...