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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... loyal Northern ladies with mistrust and aversion , and with an even deeper emotion , for these Southern ladies had realized so swiftly that it seems to have hap- pened almost overnight , that the war they had heard talked about all ...
... loyal Northern ladies with mistrust and aversion , and with an even deeper emotion , for these Southern ladies had realized so swiftly that it seems to have hap- pened almost overnight , that the war they had heard talked about all ...
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... loyal states an overwhelming response . Governors of those states flooded Washing- ton with telegrams begging to be allowed to raise double the number of men required , and so intense was the patriotic fervor that the entire quota might ...
... loyal states an overwhelming response . Governors of those states flooded Washing- ton with telegrams begging to be allowed to raise double the number of men required , and so intense was the patriotic fervor that the entire quota might ...
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... loyal yet . Up the street came the rebel tread , Stonewall Jackson riding ahead . Under his slouch hat left and right He glanced : the old flag met his sight . " Halt ! " - the dust - brown ranks stood fast ; " Fire ! " - out blazed the ...
... loyal yet . Up the street came the rebel tread , Stonewall Jackson riding ahead . Under his slouch hat left and right He glanced : the old flag met his sight . " Halt ! " - the dust - brown ranks stood fast ; " Fire ! " - out blazed the ...
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