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 ...

Sometimes nurses — Clara Barton was one — learned ... Refusing to allow the women of the Civil War to be erased, she portrayed a woman disguised as a man in more than 15 Civil War reenactments.

In the decade since then-President Barack Obama announced the opening of more military positions to women, there has been much change for some — and little for others. Obama acknowledged the ...

women took on a wide range of military roles in the Civil War. Sarah Edmonds participated in the Peninsula Campaign as a soldier, spy, and courier—and even ended up working as a (male) nurse at ...

Most of us have a desire to forget the traumatic COVID-19 pandemic. Yet Memorial Day and Veterans Day beckons us to remember ...

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They could go to war and become nurses. But that was still putting ... There isn’t a ton of data on the number of women who fought in the Civil War. Blanton said estimates range from about ...