Women at the Front
Subtitle: Hospital Workers in Civil War America
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780807858196
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; History; United States - Civil War; Women's Studies - History; relief work; Union and Confederate hospitals; women & nursing; American medicine; 19th century; military hospitals; civil war & women; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Women's Studies - General
First sentence: A widely reproduced photograph of three women in dark dresses, white aprons, and beehivelike hats has been used by modern historians as evidence that young, uniformed nurses served in military hospitals during the Civil War.