Our army nurses
Subtitle: interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our Civil War
By: compiled by Mary A. Gardner Holland.
Publisher: B. Wilkins
Published: 1895
Place of publication: Boston
Format: Microform
Subjects: Nurses.; Military nursing.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The Civil War provided women with an opportunity to enter the field of medicine and laid the groundwork for the development of the nursing profession. This book provides biographical sketches on women such as Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix, who provided nursing care during the Civil War.