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Author : Adèle De Leeuw
Publisher : Julian Messner
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Biography of a woman who distinguished herself during the Civil War by her care of the wounded, and after the war by her social welfare work.
Author : Julia A Chase
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781498152693
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1896 Edition.
Author : Lesli J. Favor
Publisher : Rosen Young Adult
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nurses
ISBN : 9780823944521
Profiles American women who served as doctors and nurses in the Civil War, including Clara Barton, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Dorothea Dix, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker.
Author : Bonnie Davies
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1039189725
Everyone knows the battles of the Civil War, with their generals and their soldiers. But few people living today know the story of Mary “Mother” Bickerdyke, a hero in her time. Mother: The Life of Mary Bickerdyke is the story of a woman who revolutionized the healing process. Mary travelled the width and breadth of America, working in hospitals, asylums, prisons, missions, houses of the poor...and at many a battlefield. She is most often recognized for her work during the American Civil War, but her loving toil occurred throughout her long life. Mary helped soldiers and generals, paupers and farmers, orphans and amputees. She loved her country and its people, and gave up a life of ease to care for others. As Mary Livermore once wrote, the good woman “lived a grand, good life, packed with noble deeds wrought for others.” Now, her astounding history has been captured for the modern reader in Mother: The Life of Mary Bickerdyke.
Author : Jane E. Schultz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807864153
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between homefront and battlefront. Schultz uses government records, private manuscripts, and published sources by and about women hospital workers, some of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but most of whom are not well-known. Examining the lives and legacies of these women, Schultz considers who they were, how they became involved in wartime hospital work, how they adjusted to it, and how they challenged it. She demonstrates that class, race, and gender roles linked female workers with soldiers, both black and white, but became sites of conflict between the women and doctors and even among themselves. Schultz also explores the women's postwar lives--their professional and domestic choices, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the war in published narratives. Surprisingly few parlayed their war experience into postwar medical work, and their extremely varied postwar experiences, Schultz argues, defy any simple narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
Author : Susan Brace
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450576383
Mother's War is a book about a little-known American heroine who saved thousands of lives. Mary Ann Bickerdyke worked as a volunteer nurse with the armies of Generals Grant and Sherman in the Civil War. During a time when women held little power, she fought and won enormous battles with skill and strength. She overcame the obstacles of cultural expectations, military rigidity and medical incompetence. Familes all over the North knew her name because their sons returned alive from the war. Yet, she suffered greatly, fighting two wars simultaneously, one within and one on the field of battle. Shortly after the end of the Civil War her name virtually disappeared, depriving women of an important role model. Mother's War brings Mrs. Bickerdyke's story back to life. War is a time when average people do extraordinary things. Learn about how a mother of three who lived in a small town responded to a simple request for help. Stepping in to the unknown, Mary Ann Bickerdyke dedicated herself to care for the wounded, and in the process pieced together from almost nothing a structure for survival. This story is relevant today because it shows that a person's capacity for resilience can grow and thrive in the face of overwhelming challenges. Women everywhere will identify with her struggles and how she found her way through them with the hard edge of courage and the gentleness of a mother.
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.
Author : Sharon M Harris
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813548195
A suffragist who wore pants. This is just the simplest of ways Dr. Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology, and sociology. Perhaps more telling about her life are the words of an 1866 London Anglo-American Times reporter, "Her strange adventures, thrilling experiences, important services and marvelous achievements exceed anything that modern romance or fiction has produced. . . . She has been one of the greatest benefactors of her sex and of the human race." In this biography Sharon M. Harris steers away from a simplistic view and showcases Walker as a Medal of Honor recipient, examining her work as an activist, author, and Civil War surgeon, along with the many nineteenth-century issues she championed:political, social, medical, and legal reforms, abolition, temperance, gender equality, U.S. imperialism, and the New Woman. Rich in research and keyed to a new generation, Dr. Mary Walker captures its subject's articulate political voice, public self, and the realities of an individual whose ardent beliefs in justice helped shape the radical politics of her time.
Author : Patricia L. Richard
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823223008
Focusing on middle-class women's contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men's postwar civilian fitness. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of Civil War nurses, sanitary workers, soldiers, and the soldiers' aid societies, Richard develops a new perspective on domestic influence on the war, as women sought to save soldiers from the dangers of the military world.
Author : Linda Hatke Ruholl Rn Phd
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780615855301
MARY NEWCOMB was a pioneer woman who accompanied her carpenter husband in his westward journey from New York to Ohio to Indiana. At the start of the Civil War, they were in Illinois. When Hiram signed up in April of 1861, Mary Newcomb accompanied him and the Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry to Southern Illinois. Her first nursing service was given at Bird's Point, caring for soldiers with black measles. Hiram was critically wounded during the Twin Rivers Campaign , and she transported him back to Effingham, Illinois. After burying him at Oakridge Cemetery, Newcomb fulfilled Hiram's deathbed request to "go back and take care of the boys." MARY BROWN NEWCOMB was a volunteer with no formal medical training. Nursing was disparaged, and there were no schools to teach it. Her personal nursing experience was derived from caring for her children and assisting victims of cholera epidemics. Newcomb was inspired by Florence Nightingale's success in reducing mortality in the Crimean War, and she applied Nightingale's lessons. Without a commission, MOTHER MARY NEWCOMB had freedom of movement to accompany Grant's Army in the Western Theatre, and she went on to serve at Shiloh, Corinth, Occupied Arkansas, Vicksburg, and New Orleans. She fed the hungry, dressed wounds, and assisted with anesthesia and amputations. She washed bodies and the clothes on them. She rendered psychological support to the fearful and the dying. Newcomb wrote soldiers' letters, and saw that money was sent home. When all failed, she returned their bodies to family. As whistleblower and advocate, Newcomb's primary interest was the common man in the ranks.