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The Role of Female Doctors and Nurses in the Civil War

By Hallie Murray

Book information

Publisher
LLC, Cavendish Square Publishing
Year
2019
ISBN
9781502655455, 9781502655431, 9781502655448
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16269729 bytes)
Series
Warrior Women in American History
Pages
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Time added
2023-08-02 14:49:14
Biography & Autobiography; Young Adult Nonfiction;

Description

The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history, and although many were uncomfortable with the idea of women interacting with soldiers, there simply weren't enough male doctors to meet the needs of the wounded. Women in both the Union and the Confederacy helped fill that need, and in the doing so, changed the course of American medical history. This book tells the story of many of these brave women, including Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the mentally ill and the superintendent of army nurses for the Union, and Clara Barton, a self-taught nurse who founded the Red Cross.

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