The Women and the Crisis: Women of the North in the Civil WarChronicles the changes which came about through the dedicated work of Northern women during the Civil War regarding the responsibility for treatment of the wounded. Their efforts laid the groundwork for modern organized charity work, the Red Cross, and what could be considered military nursing. Biographies are included of notable women who dedicated themselves to caring for the wounded and changing government policy. |
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... ladies of New England were donning their somewhat dowdy and faintly austere bonnets to go to lectures by Emerson , and the ladies of Cleveland and Chicago were picking their way through the mud of the unpaved streets to go to gatherings ...
... ladies of New England were donning their somewhat dowdy and faintly austere bonnets to go to lectures by Emerson , and the ladies of Cleveland and Chicago were picking their way through the mud of the unpaved streets to go to gatherings ...
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... ladies . Terrapin stew and oysters in season were standbys , and stocks of them were kept in cellars against emergency . These Wash- ington cellars would have given a Northern lady fits for they were awash with brackish water where ...
... ladies . Terrapin stew and oysters in season were standbys , and stocks of them were kept in cellars against emergency . These Wash- ington cellars would have given a Northern lady fits for they were awash with brackish water where ...
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... ladies emerged from the fiery sessions at the Capitol with crinolines crushed and spirits exalted . There was no outlet for their intense patriotic fervor , however , save the snubbing of the ladies from the North . This they proceeded ...
... ladies emerged from the fiery sessions at the Capitol with crinolines crushed and spirits exalted . There was no outlet for their intense patriotic fervor , however , save the snubbing of the ladies from the North . This they proceeded ...
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