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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.
Heroines of Mercy Street Revisited
A few notes from Heroines of Mercy Street, by Pamela Toler.
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.
African Americans in Civil War Medicine
African American women made up about 10% of the Union hospital nurse workforce.