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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 ]
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]
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 ...
Risley was the last surviving member of the National Association of Civil War Nurses, which dissolved on her death. [5] She is mentioned in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of July 27, 1930. She was president of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War. [6] She died in 1939 at the home of her son, Guy, in Alexandria, Louisiana. [2]
Three of Titus's brothers served in the Union Army; two died from their wounds and illnesses in the service, and one was a prisoner at Andersonville. [3] Though she was younger than the minimum age preferred for nurses, [4] she joined the Army nursing corps in 1864 under Dorothea Dix, [5] trained under Caroline Burghardt, and worked at Columbia Hospital in Washington, D.C. until the end of the ...