Society for Women in the Civil War: A Range of Topics

Society for Women in the Civil War: A Range of Topics

From a variety of primary sources, and from Mount Vernon to the Far West and back again.

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Heroines of Mercy Street Revisited

Heroines of Mercy Street Revisited

A few notes from Heroines of Mercy Street, by Pamela Toler.

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Civil War Medicine: Surgeon Training

One of the many things I learned this week from Von Barron, aka Captain Turner Kitt, was that no surgeon working in the field, north or south, lasted all four years of the Civil War.

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African Americans in Civil War Medicine

African American women made up about 10% of the Union hospital nurse workforce.

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