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 ...

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

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.

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 ...