Title Woman's work in the Civil War : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience / by L.P. Brockett and Mary C. Vaughan ; with an introduction by Henry W. Bellows

Published Philadelphia : Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867

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Women and Social Movements in the United States

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Description 1 online resource (799 pages, 16 leaves of plates) : illustrations, portraits Series Women and social movements: scholar's edition Contents Introduction / by Henry W. Bellows, D.D. -- Introductory chapter. -- pt. I. Superintendent of nurses. Miss Dorothea L. Dix. -- pt. II. Ladies who ministered to the sick and wounded in camp, field, and general hospitals. Clara Harlowe Barton ; Helen Louise Gilson ; Mrs. John Harris ; Mrs. Eliza C. Porter ; Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke ; Margaret Elizabeth Breckinridge / by Mrs. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Stephen Barker ; Amy M. Bradley ; Mrs. Arabella Griffith Barlow ; Mrs. Nellie Maria Taylor ; Mrs. Adaline Tyler ; Mrs. William H. Holstein ; Mrs. Cordelia A.P. Harvey / by Rev. N.M. Mann ; Mrs. Sarah R. Johnston ; Emily E. Parsons / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Almira Fales ; Mrs. Mary Morris Husband ; The Hospital Transport Service ; Other labors of some of the members of the Hospital Transport Corps ; Katherine Prescott Wormeley ; The Misses Woolsey ; Anna Maria Ross ; Mrs. G.T.M. Davis ; Mary J. Safford ; Mrs. Lydia G. Parrish ; Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer ; Melcenia Elliott / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mary Dwight Pettes / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Louisa Maertz / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Harriet R. Colfax ; Clara Davis ; Mrs. R.H. Spencer ; Mrs. Harriet Foote Hawley / by Mrs. H.B. Stowe ; Ellen E. Mitchell ; Jessie Home ; Miss Vance and Miss Blackmar / by Mrs. M.M. Husband H.A. Dada and S.E. Hall ; Mrs. Sarah P. Edson ; Maria M.C. Hall ; The Hospital Corps at the Naval Academy Hospital, Annapolis ; Other labors of some of the members of the Annapolis Hospital Corps ; Mrs. A.H. and Miss S.H. Gibbons ; Mrs. E.J. Russell ; Mrs. Mary W. Lee ; Cornelia M. Tompkins / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Anna C. McMeens / by Mrs. E.S. Mendenhall ; Mrs. Jerusha R. Small / by Mrs. E.S. Mendenhall ; Mrs. S.A. Martha Canfield / by Mrs. E.S. Mendenhall ; Mrs. Thomas and Miss Morris ; Mrs. Shepard Wells / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. E.C. Witherell / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Phebe Allen / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Edwin Greble ; Mrs. Isabella Fogg ; Mrs. E.E. George ; Mrs. Charlotte E. McKay ; Mrs. Fanny L. Ricketts ; Mrs. John S. Phelps ; Mrs. Jane R. Munsell. -- pt. III. Ladies who organized aid societies, received and forwarded supplies to the hospitals, devoting their whole time to the work, etc. Woman's Central Association of Relief / by Mrs. Julia B. Curtis ; Soldier's Aid Society of Northern Ohio ; New England Women's Auxiliary Association ; The Northwestern Sanitary Commission ; Mrs. A.H. Hoge ; Mrs. Mary A. Livermore ; General Aid Society for the Army, Buffalo ; Michigan Soldiers' Aid Society ; Women's Pennsylvania Branch of United States Sanitary Commission The Wisconsin Soldiers' Aid Society / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Pittsburg Branch United States Sanitary Commission ; Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mendenhall ; Department of the South ; St. Louis Ladies' Union Aid Society ; Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia, & c ; Women's Relief Association of Brooklyn and Long Island ; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Streeter ; Mrs. Curtis T. Fenn ; Mrs. James Harlan ; New England Soldiers' Relief Association. -- pt. IV. Ladies distinguished for services among the freedmen and refugees. Mrs. Frances Dana Gage ; Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy ; Maria R. Mann ; Sarah J. Hagar ; Mrs. Josephine R. Griffin ; Mrs. M.M. Hallowell ; Other friends of the freedmen and refugees. -- pt. V. Ladies distinguished for services in soldiers' homes, volunteer refreshment saloons, on government hospital transports, etc. Mrs. O.E. Hosmer ; Miss Hattie Wiswall ; Mrs. Lucy E. Starr ; Miss Charlotte Bradford ; Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia ; Mrs. R.M. Bigelow ; Miss Hattie R. Sharpless and her associates. -- pt. VI. Ladies distinguished for other services in the national cause. Mrs. Annie Etheridge ; Delphine P. Baker ; Mrs. S. Burger Stearns ; Barbara Frietchie ; Mrs. Hettie M. McEwen ; Other defenders of the flag ; Military heroines ; The women of Gettysburg ; Loyal women of the South ; Miss Hetty A. Jones / by Horatio G. Jones, Esq. -- Final chapter. The faithful but less conspicuous laborers Summary Sketches of the heroism of individual women of the Union reveal the strong contributions of northern women to the Civil War Notes Text digitized by the University of Michigan as part of the Making of America Project Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Content as of: Dec. 2001; title from Making of America bibliographic citation web page Subject Women -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Hospitals -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Women -- United States -- Biography Hospitals Women SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140214 Subject United States Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882. Vaughan, Mary C Making of America Project. LC no. 15018154

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