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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 ...
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, 1899-1900. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Library of Congress (Manuscript Division). Stearns, Amanda Akin. The Lady Nurse of Ward E. New York, New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1909. "The Diary of a Civil War Nurse." Washington, D.C.: Albert H. Small ...
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.
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]
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Susan Ann Edson was born January 4, 1823, in Fleming, New York. [5] She was the daughter of John Joy Edson and Sarah E. Barnes. Her sister Sarah Philena Edson (born 1818) married Sterne John Wheaton Underhill; after they divorced, Sarah retained custody of the children. [1]
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).
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 ...