Retropolis Doctors demanded male nurses during the Civil War. Clara Barton defied them. The extraordinary woman known as the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ eventually founded the Red Cross ...

During the U.S. Civil War, many doctors refused to work with women. Clara Barton, who took on nursing at the time, didn’t listen to them. It started with the Baltimore Riot on April 19, 1861 ...

The Civil War changed the social, economic, and political landscape for women from every walk of American life—perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of nursing. Before the war, most nurses ...

Prior to the presentation, curator Gene Smith said the museum wanted to give an out-of-the-ordinary female perspective of the Civil War. dacarson@gannett.com 419-334-1046 ...

An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864 (Pasadena, Md.: Minerva Center, 1994).

When the Civil War began, women were able to take on a variety of new roles that they hadn’t in the previous decades. Thousands of women became nurses and relief workers, and some of them also ...

Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in Arlington National ... Congress authorized the Army to hire female nurses at a time when nursing was a male-dominated profession.

"Cornelia Hancock: Civil War Nurse" will take place on April 17 at the West Springfield Public Library Community Room at 7 p.m.

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

A Civil War historical re-enactment at Tunnel Hill, Georgia FRILET Patrick/Hemis/Corbis War is full of smells. "Stay in a hospital during a war and you will be come accustomed to the chemical ...

Nancy Haas of the Avon Lake Historical Society spent over 40 years working as a nurse in hospitals around northern Ohio.Now, Haas is helping to spread the word of some of her earliest professional ...