A Woman Doctors Civil War

Author : Gerald Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643363336
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman Doctor's Civil War written by Gerald Schwartz and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood. And those very differences destined her to chronicle the era in which she played such a strange part. While most women of the 1860s stayed at home, tending husband and house, Esther Hill Hawks went south to minister to black Union troops and newly freed slaves as both a teacher and a doctor. She kept a diary and described the South she saw—conquered but still proud. Her pen, honed to a fine point by her abolitionist views, missed mothing as she traveled through a hungary and ailing land. In the well-known Diary from Dixie, Mary Boykin Chestnut depiced her native Southland as one of cavaliers with their ladies, statesmen and politicians, honor and glory. But Hawks painted a much different picture. And unlike Chestnut's characters, hers were liberated slaves and their hungary children, swaggering carpetbaggers, occupation troops far from home, and zealous missionaries. Revealed in the pages of this diary is a woman of vast energy, intelligence, and fortitude, who transformed her idealism into action.

Author : Esther Hill Hawks
Publisher : Women's Diaries and Letters of
ISBN 13 : 9780872496224
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman Doctor's Civil War written by Esther Hill Hawks and published by Women's Diaries and Letters of. This book was released on 1989 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawks, Esther Hill.

Author : Edward C. Atwater
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465714
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War written by Edward C. Atwater and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable reference work chronicling the lives of over 200 women who received medical degrees in the United States before the Civil War.

Author : Hallie Murray
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502655454
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Female Doctors and Nurses in the Civil War written by Hallie Murray and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history, and although many were uncomfortable with the idea of women interacting with soldiers, there simply weren't enough male doctors to meet the needs of the wounded. Women in both the Union and the Confederacy helped fill that need, and in the doing so, changed the course of American medical history. This book tells the story of many of these brave women, including Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the mentally ill and the superintendent of army nurses for the Union, and Clara Barton, a self-taught nurse who founded the Red Cross.

Author : Carla Joinson
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781599350288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Doctor written by Carla Joinson and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult biography of Civil War surgeon Mary Walker

Author : Theresa Kaminski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036106
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War written by Theresa Kaminski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I will always be somebody.” This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in recognition of the incomparable medical service Walker rendered during the Civil War. Yet few people today know anything about the woman so well-known--even notorious--in her own lifetime. Kaminski shares a different way of looking at the Civil War, through the eyes of a woman confident she could make a contribution equal to that of any man. This part of the story takes readers into the political cauldron of the nation’s capital in wartime, where Walker was a familiar if notorious figure. Mary Walker’s relentless pursuit of gender and racial equality is key to understanding her commitment to a Union victory in the Civil War. Her role in the women’s suffrage movement became controversial and the US Army stripped Walker of her medal, only to have the medal reinstated in 1977.

Author : Cheryl Harness
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807549916
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Walker Wears the Pants written by Cheryl Harness and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Amelia Bloomer list The Best Children's Books of the Year 2014, Bank Street College The story of Mary Edwards Walker, the doctor and women's rights activist who served in the Civil War and receive the Medal of Honor. Mary Edwards Walker was unconventional for her time: She was one of the first women doctors in the country, she was a suffragist, and she wore pants! And when the Civil War struck, she took to the battlefields in a modified Union uniform as a commissioned doctor. For her service she became the only woman ever to earn the Medal of Honor. This picture book biography tells the story of a remarkable woman who challenged traditional roles and lived life on her own terms.

Author : Sharon M Harris
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813548197
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Mary Walker written by Sharon M Harris and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suffragist who wore pants. This is just the simplest of ways Dr. Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology, and sociology. Perhaps more telling about her life are the words of an 1866 London Anglo-American Times reporter, "Her strange adventures, thrilling experiences, important services and marvelous achievements exceed anything that modern romance or fiction has produced. . . . She has been one of the greatest benefactors of her sex and of the human race." In this biography Sharon M. Harris steers away from a simplistic view and showcases Walker as a Medal of Honor recipient, examining her work as an activist, author, and Civil War surgeon, along with the many nineteenth-century issues she championed:political, social, medical, and legal reforms, abolition, temperance, gender equality, U.S. imperialism, and the New Woman. Rich in research and keyed to a new generation, Dr. Mary Walker captures its subject's articulate political voice, public self, and the realities of an individual whose ardent beliefs in justice helped shape the radical politics of her time.

Author : Lesli J. Favor
Publisher : Rosen Young Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780823944521
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Doctors and Nurses of the Civil War written by Lesli J. Favor and published by Rosen Young Adult. This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles American women who served as doctors and nurses in the Civil War, including Clara Barton, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Dorothea Dix, Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker.

Author : Larry G. Eggleston
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476607818
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Civil War written by Larry G. Eggleston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their traditional roles and served in many capacities, some of them even going so far as to disguise themselves as men and enlist in the army. Estimates of such women enlistees range from 400 to 700. About 60 women soldiers were known to have been killed or wounded. More than sixty women who fought or who served the Union or Confederacy in other ways are featured. Among them are Sarah Thompson, the Union spy and nurse who brought down the famous raider John Hunt Morgan; Elizabeth Van Lew, the Union spy instrumental in the largest prison break of the war; Sarah Malinda Blalock, who fought for the Confederacy as a soldier and then for the Union as a guerrilla raider; Dr. Mary Walker, a doctor for the Union and the only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for Civil War service; and Jennie Hodgers, the longest serving woman soldier (and the only woman to receive a soldier’s pension).