Title: The angels of the battlefields
Description: Presents biographies of some of the many noble ladies, who sacrificed so much and gave their time, money and efforts, and in many cases their lives, to the soldiers in the US civil war. The ladies detailed include: Miss Dorothea L Dix (superintendent of nurses), Clara Harlowe Barton, Cornelia Hancock, and Mrs Mary A Bickerdyke.
Subjects: Nursing, History, Nurses, Biography, Military nursing, Women, Hospitals, American Civil War, History, 19th Century, Military Nursing
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865