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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]
When the American Civil War broke out, Livermore became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission, headquarters at Chicago and performed a vast amount of labor of all kinds by organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, contributing to the press, answering correspondence, and other things incident to the ...
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 ...
The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) 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]
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 ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked at a New Hampshire town hall about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response ...
With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Gibbons knew that nurses would be needed to care for the wounded. The United States Sanitary Commission was established in 1861, shortly after the Civil War began, to recruit nurses and to provide adequate medical care to the Union wounded. It would undertake numerous fundraising efforts to raise ...