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Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (2009) excerpt and text search; Giesberg, Judith, and Randall M. Miller, eds. Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints (2018) Goldstein, Joshua S. (2003). War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521 ...
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.
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]
Lucy Higgs with her daughter Mona escaping slavery from Grays Creek, Tennessee to the Union lines, June 1862. In late June 1862, Lucy, her daughter Mona, and some other slaves escaped from Grays Creek, Tennessee, crossed the Hatchie River, and eventually arrived at the Union lines that were at the fairgrounds near Bolivar, Tennessee, almost thirty miles away.
A college professor and his students counted words in secession documents to determine what really caused the Civil War. Research tells the truth about Civil War causes: slavery, slavery, slavery ...
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).
[1] [2] A staunch opponent of slavery, Woolsey volunteered as a nurse soon after the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. [2] Georgeanna was not the only member of the Woolsey family to participate in the war; her brother John joined the Union army as a cavalry officer, while her three sisters and mother also worked as nurses during the ...
Songs about slavery and women's experiences during their enslavement were often passed down through generations. [28] African-American women work songs are historical snapshots of lived experience and survival. [29] Songs speak of families being torn apart and the emotional turmoil that enslaved women were put through by slavery.