"After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital Association and…
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Jane E. Schultz provides a first full history of these female relief workers, showing how the domestic and military arenas merged in Civil War America, blurring the line between hom…
"As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during the Civil War. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the…