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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... horse from Centerville toward Alexandria , she was in the midst of the full tide of the retreat . The road , the ditches and the fields were a solid , crawling , snake - like mass of wagons , gun caissons , horses and demoralized men ...
... horse from Centerville toward Alexandria , she was in the midst of the full tide of the retreat . The road , the ditches and the fields were a solid , crawling , snake - like mass of wagons , gun caissons , horses and demoralized men ...
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... horse , dug in his spurs , and rode off after re - enforcements , while Appler , screaming like the wounded men , ran for the rear . When the order to fall in was given and Belle Reynolds ' husband called for his horse , Belle finished ...
... horse , dug in his spurs , and rode off after re - enforcements , while Appler , screaming like the wounded men , ran for the rear . When the order to fall in was given and Belle Reynolds ' husband called for his horse , Belle finished ...
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... horse . Annie had no horse of her own , but the surgeon found her a cavalry mount , a big , rawboned , disillusioned veteran , whom nothing could surprise . Her saddle was a heavy regulation cavalry saddle which must have been ...
... horse . Annie had no horse of her own , but the surgeon found her a cavalry mount , a big , rawboned , disillusioned veteran , whom nothing could surprise . Her saddle was a heavy regulation cavalry saddle which must have been ...
Términos y frases comunes
aid societies Alcott ambulance Anna Annie April army arrived attack battle became began boats Boston boys Cairo called camp campaign Carolina carried cavalry City Point Clara Barton Colonel command Confederate Cornelia Cornelia Hancock crowd Dorothea Dix dress enemy face field hospital fighting fire flag Fort Sumter Gettysburg girls Grant guns hands Harper's Ferry horse husband Julia Ward July June Kady Katharine ladies Lee's Lincoln lines lived Louisa Louisa May Alcott March Mary Livermore McClellan military Miss Dix Mother Bickerdyke moved Negroes never night North nurses officers organization Pauline Pauline Cushman Potomac President railroad regiment river rode Sanitary Commission scene seemed sent Sherman ship sick slaves soldiers South South Carolina story supplies surgeons tents thought took troops Union Army Union forces Vicksburg Virginia volunteer wagons ward Washington White House Wittenmyer woman women wounded wrote York young