The Women and the Crisis: Women of the North in the Civil WarMcDowell, Obolensky, 1959 - 389 páginas Chronicles the changes which came about through the dedicated work of Northern women during the Civil War regarding the responsibility for treatment of the wounded. Their efforts laid the groundwork for modern organized charity work, the Red Cross, and what could be considered military nursing. Biographies are included of notable women who dedicated themselves to caring for the wounded and changing government policy. |
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... already on the wane . The fiction of the Fifties betrays the women readers as restive , resentful of men , aware of their own vitality and dissatisfied by the limitations which their way of life put on their powers . When suddenly the ...
... already on the wane . The fiction of the Fifties betrays the women readers as restive , resentful of men , aware of their own vitality and dissatisfied by the limitations which their way of life put on their powers . When suddenly the ...
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... already become practiced in the difficult art of working together for a common aim . Concerted effort , for this nucleus , was already natural and easy . In having this structure to build on , the North was more fortunate than the South ...
... already become practiced in the difficult art of working together for a common aim . Concerted effort , for this nucleus , was already natural and easy . In having this structure to build on , the North was more fortunate than the South ...
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... already there . Buford knew the Confederates were in the neighborhood , and on the thirtieth he had driven away a detachment of troops that had been sent to Gettysburg to capture shoes , of which the Confederate Army was always in need ...
... already there . Buford knew the Confederates were in the neighborhood , and on the thirtieth he had driven away a detachment of troops that had been sent to Gettysburg to capture shoes , of which the Confederate Army was always in need ...
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