The experience of women serving in hospitals during the (Civil War) helped pave the way for the emergence of professional nursing and nursing schools after the war." Nurses like Amanda Akin were ...

Studio portrait of Dorothea Dix, superintendent of nurses for the Union during the American Civil War.Corbis via Getty Images The Union formalized an arrangement in 1861, appointing Dorothea Dix ...

Women's history is just the latest casualty. Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. (Department of Defense) A 2024 DoD News article from writer ...

She heroically cared for patients throughout the war. As well known then as Clara Barton, a hospital nurse during the Civil War and founder of the American Red Cross, Hancock was venerated by the ...

She focused on Louisa May Alcott’s time as Civil War nurse chronicled in her book, Hospital Sketches. Professor Judith Giesberg talked about the ways northern middle-class women volunteered ...

The women — one of whom was Ruth Danforth of Ontario — were recognized for their work as nurses during the Civil War so many years before. “Many a man in the small number of survivors ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) _ At the time of her death in Ottawa on May 20, 1897, Sarah Gregg, 86, was revered as a remarkable woman for her service during the Civil War as a Union army nurse. 'To her ...