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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience
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Series: Heritage Classic
ISBN13: 9781556137648
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 818
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
With an introduction by Henry W. Bellows, D.D.
Harper's Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Sharpsburg, Bull Run, Vicksburg; women finished the work begun by men in these famous battles and throughout the Civil War. They served in hospitals in Georgetown, Annapolis, New Orleans, Illinois, Ohio, Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey. The women's biographical sketches herein also provide genealogists and Civil War historians with lists of names of members of the many soldiers' aid societies, as well as descriptions of battlefields and military campaigns. Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton are among approximately eighty heroic women from all over the country whose lives are memorialized in this book.
Historians and genealogists will find battle descriptions and lists of names of: Maryland Women in the War, New England's Women's Auxiliary Association, The Patriotic Women of Michigan, Women's Pennsylvania Branch of United States Sanitary Commission, Loyal Women of Philadelphia, The Wisconsin Soldiers' Aid Society, Milwaukee Ladies Soldiers' Aid Society, Pittsburgh Sanitary Committee, the Hospital Corps at the Naval Academy Hospital in Annapolis and every other important aid station, including St. Louis, Brooklyn and Long Island, Nashville, and Chicago. Names are also listed for: Ladies who organized aid societies, and received and forwarded supplies to the hospitals; Ladies distinguished for services among the freedmen and refugees; Military heroes; Loyal women of Charleston, Tennessee, Northern Georgia, and Alabama; The women of Gettysburg: and loyal women of the South, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a tribute to Harriet Foote Hawley, who was praised for her work among the freedmen.
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