Women's history is just the latest casualty. Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. (Department of Defense) A 2024 DoD News article from writer ...

According to Steyer, Wolff served as a Union Army nurse in military hospitals ... many dressed in historical attire, spoke of Civil War nurses’ importance. “Women were thought to be too ...

The Department of Defense is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, one the great historical events ...

The week after the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Barton began nursing Union soldiers at an improvised camp inside the U.S. Capitol in the Senate chamber, and soon took her skills to the front ...

She is co-editor of the book series ”Nursing History and Humanities.” "Women at the Front," a study of gender and relief work in American Civil War military hospitals, was a finalist for the ...

Black men and women were forced to build fortifications, work as blacksmiths, nurses ... 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. 617,000 Americans had died in ...

Within the U.S. military, World War II made the nurse an indispensable aspect of battlefield medical care. One of the infrequently recognized sacrifices of Army nurses was the time spent as ...