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Civil War Nurses: Research Resources Library
- This page is part of the A Trilogy: Part One: United States Civil War Nurses Project, and also described here. It serves as a research resource for and library of Civil War Nurses .
Project Page Links
- For convenience, this table links all the project pages.
A Trilogy Part One: United States Civil War Nurses Project Page Links | |||
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Nurses' Tables Pages: | Table I: Nurses Identified | Table II: Nurses' Profiles | In Memoriam: Civil War Nurses |
Project Pages: | Main Project Page | Research Resources | Project & Nurse Images |
Coming Soon! | Project Guidelines | Workflow & Instructions | Profile Tips & Tricks |
Trilogy Pages | Introduction: Women in the Civil War | Part Two: Women Spies | Part Three: Women Soldiers |
Page Purpose
- This library provides links to literature, websites, media, and other resources to explore, research, and identify women who served as nurses at any time during the United States Civil War.
How to Help
- If you find a website, article, FamilySearch profile, or a FindAGrave memorial of a Civil War nurse, male or female, please leave a comment on this page with the link[s] so we can add the data to this page;
- Check out the searchable databases below and prepare a list of nurses to add to [[Space:United_States_Civil_War_Nurses#Table_I._Civil_War_Nurses:_Identification.
- Review the listed references to identify nurses;
- Quality Control - test links, organize links; act as Research Head;
- If you love research, have a passion for the Civil War era, and want to focus your skills on locating nurses, and adding to our library, join us! Please see: Help Needed!
Resources for Research
- The websites and books listed below give good information and clues about the nurses to start working on or creating WikiTree profiles. Sources would need to be researched and added for the life events; birth, marriage, death and burial to meet the goals above.
- The books include those written by nurses of their experiences during the war. Some kept diaries which were published post-mortem. Others are letters among family members. Where nurses authored books, the link is included in their personal notes in the tables below. All books are fascinating accounts and tributes to this little documented but tremendously valuable group who cared for the wounded and dying soldiers, both Union and Confederate, participating in the bloodiest war in United States history, sometimes under the most horrendous conditions unimaginable.
- Videos are listed; first to document the conditions, and second to provide the list from a search of Civil War Nurse videos on Youtube. Viewer discretion is advised; some are heart-wrenching.
Books
- Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1869.
- Anderson, Mary E. Roberts Mrs. The Story of Aunt Lizzie Aiken. Chicago: E. M. Sprauge. 1880.
- Bacon, Georgeanna M. Woolsey. Three Weeks at Gettysburg. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1863.
- Bacon, Georgeanna Woolsey., Howland, Eliza Woolsey. Letters of a Family during the War for the Union, 1861-1865. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1899 Volume 1. Archive.org
- Bacon, Georgeanna Woolsey., Howland, Eliza Woolsey. Letters of a Family during the War for the Union, 1861-1865. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1899 Volume 2. Archive.org
- Bacot, Ada W. A Confederate nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot 1860-1863. Edited by Jean V. Berlin. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1993.
- Barton, George. Angels Of The Battlefield: a History of the Labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the Late Civil War. Philadelphia: Catholic Art Pub. Co., 1898.
- Beers, Fannie A. Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. 1891.
- Boyden, Anna L. Echoes from Hospital and White House: A Record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy’s Experiences in War-Times. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. 1884.
- Brockett, Linus Pierpoint and Vaughan, Mary C. Woman’s Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy, & Co. 1867.
- Bryce, Campbell Mrs. Reminiscences of the Hospitals of Columbia, S.C. During the Four Years of the Civil War. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott. 1897.
- Bucklin, Sophronia E. In Hospital and Camp. Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Co.. 1869.
- Coco, Gregory A. A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle. Gettysburg, PA.: Thomas Publications. 1995.
- Cumming, Kate. A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Co. 1866.
- Davis, Margaret Burton. Mother Bickerdyke; Her Life and Labors for the Relief of Our Soldiers. San Francisco: A. T. Dewey. 1886.
- Eaton, Harriet. This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton Edited by Jane E. Schultz. Oxford University Press. 2010.
- Edmonds, Sarah Emma E., Nurse and Spy in the Union Army. Hartford, CT.: W.S. Williams & Co., 1865.
- Erving, Annie Priscilla, Mrs. Reminiscences of the Life of a Nurse in Field, Hospital, and Camp during the Civil War. Newburgh, N.Y., Daily News: 1904.
- Gibbons, Abby (Hopper); Emerson, Sarah Hopper Gibbons, ed. Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons, Vol. I. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1897.
- Geenbie, Marjorie Barstow. Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy.New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1944.
- Hancock, Cornelia. South after Gettysburg; Letters of Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1868. Edited by Henrietta Stratton Jaquette. University of Pennsylvania Press., 1937.
- Hoge, A.H. Mrs. The Boys in Blue; or Heroes of the "Rank and File." New York: E.B. Treat & Co., 1867.
- Holland, Mary A. Gardner. Our Army Nurses. Boston: B. Wilkins & Co. 1895.
- Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic Twentieth National Encampment. Edited by William H Ward. San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co. 1887.
- Hawks, Esther Hill. A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary. Edited by Gerald Schwartz. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1984.
- H., Mrs. (Holstein, Anna Morris.) Three Years in Field Hospitals of the Army of the Potomac. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867.
- Kellogg, Florence Shaw. Mother Bickerdyke: As I Knew Her. Chicago: Unity Publishing Co. 1907.
- Hill Sarah Jane Full. Mrs. Hill’s journal – Civil War reminiscences. Edited by Mark M. Krug. Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. 1980.
- Lawrence, Catherine S. Sketch of Life and Labors of Miss Catherine S. Lawrence. Albany, NY: Amasa J. Parker, Parsons & Co., 1893.
- American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies. Vol. 1. Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, ed. Willard, Frances Elizabeth. ed. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. 1897.
- American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies. Vol. 2. Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, ed. Willard, Frances Elizabeth. ed. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. 1897.
- Livermore, Mary A. My Story of the War. Hartford, CT. : A.D. Worthington. 1890.
- Logan, John A. Mrs. The Part Taken by Women in American History. Wilmington DE: Perry-Nalle Publishing Co. 1912. pp. 305-376.
- MacCaskill, Libby. Ladies on the Field: Two Civil War Nurses from Maine on the Battlefields of Virginia. Livermore, ME.: Signal Tree Pubilcations, 1997.
- McKay, Charlotte Elizabeth Mrs. Stories of Hospital and Camp. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinge. 1876.
- Moore, Frank. Women of the War. Hartford, CT.: S.S. Scranton & Co. 1867.
- Moss, Lemuel. Annals of the United States Christian Commission. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1868. archive.org
- National Association of Civil War Army Nurses. In honor of the National Association of Civil War Army Nurses. Citizens Executive Committee. Atlantic City, NJ: Yeakel Printing Co. 1910.
- Newcomb, Mary A. Four Years of Personal Reminiscences of the War. Chicago: H.S. Mills, 1893.
- Olnhausen, Mary Phinney von. Edited by James Phinney Munroe. Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company. 1904.
- Palmer, Sarah A. The Story of Aunt Becky's Army Life. New York: J.F. Trow & Co., 1867.
- Parsons, Emily. Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons. Boston: Little, Brown, Co., 1880.
- Patriot Daughters of Lancaster, The. Hospital Scenes: After the Battle of Gettysburg. Philadelphia: Henry B Ashmead Book. 1864.
- Pember, Phoebe Yates. A Southern Woman’s Story: Phoebe Yates Pember. New York: G. W. Carleton & Co. 1879.
- Powers, Elvira J. Hospital Pencillings; Being a Diary While in Jefferson General Hospital. Boston: Edward L. Mitchell. 1866.
- Rodgers, Sarah Sites. The Ties of the Past: The Gettysburg Diaries of Salome Myers Stewart 1854-1922. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications. 1996.
- Ropes, Hannah. Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes, 1862-63. Edited by John R Brumgardt. Knoxville TN.: University of Tennessee Press. 1980.
- Scott, Kate M. History of Jefferson County Pennsylvania. Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1888.
- Scott, Kate M. History of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia: New-World Pub. Co., 1877.
- Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front - Hospital Workers in Civil War America Chapel Hill, NC.: University of North Carolina Press. 2007.
- Shelton, Amanda. Turn Backward, O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton. Edited by Kathleen S. Hanson. Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press. 2006.
- Smith, Adelaide W. Reminiscences of an Army Nurse during the Civil War. New York: Greaves, 1911.
- Souder, Edmund A. Mrs. Leaves from the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, son, & Co., 1864
- Sterns, Amanda Akin. The Lady Nurse of Ward E. New York: Baker & Taylor Co. 1909.
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey. Half a Century. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1880.
- Taylor, Susie King. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Boston: SK Taylor. 1902.
- Various. Our Women in the War. Charleston: The Weekly News and Courier Book Presses. 1885.
- The Western Sanitary Commision; A Sketch. St. Louis, Missouri:R. P. Studley & Co. 1864. pg.107 Archive.org
- Wheelock, Julia S. The Boys in White: The Experience of a Hospital Agent in and around Washington. New York: Lange & Hillman. 1870.
- Whitman, Walt. The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Expericences in the Civil War. Edited by John Harmon McElroy. Boston: David R Godine. 1999.
- Wittenmyer, Annie. Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the Civil War. Boston: E. B. Stillings & Co. 1895.
- Woolsey, Jane Stuart. Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse. New York: D. Van Nostrand. 1868.
- Wormeley, Prescott, Katharine. The Other Side of War with the Army of the Potomac. Ticknor 1889.
Searchable Databases
- Kean University guide which offers links and guides for researching Civil War nurses.
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine Page link to databases allowing researchers to find the names of medical personnel who served at Antietam.
- US Veterans' Administration - National Cemetery Administration Nationwide Gravesite Locator This is a searchable database - enter names, etc. A valuable research aid to locate additional nurses buried in national cemeteries in honor of their Civil War service.
Videos
- Answering the Call: The Beginning of Nurse Anesthesia
- Bodies, Suffering Spirits Part 4: Nurses
- List of YouTube Videos - Civil War Nurses and Nursing
Websites & Articles
- Army Nurses of the Civil War
- Civil War Nurses
- Civil War and Nursing by Jane E. Schultz
- Civil War Photo Sleuth
- Confederate matrons : women who served in Virginia Civil War hospitals
- Daughters of Charity and the Battle of Gettysburg
- "For A Woman" The Trials and Tribulations of Studying the Pensions of Female Civil War Personnel
- From Battlefield to Bedside: Great Nurses of the Civil War
- Hospital Nuns From the Civil War to Today
- Library of Congress Collection - Nurse Photographs 81 pages of photographs to identify nurses, or upload and add to profiles
- Media in category "American Civil War nurses" - public domain photographs of Civil War Nurses
- Mother Seton's Daughters of Charity and the Civil War
- Nursing in the Civil War South
- Professionalism of Female Nursing in the Civil War
- The part taken by women in American Histlry - CW Nurses
- She Went to War: Indiana Women Nurses in the Civil War. by Seigel, P. (1990) Indiana Magazine of History
- Springing to the Call: a Documentary View of Women in the American Civil War, edited by C. Kay Larson
- Ten Common Myths about Women in the Civil War and How to Dispel Them by Jane E. Schultz
- Understanding War Through Imagery: The Civil War in American Memory
- United States Sanitary Commission (USSC)
- Wikipedia: National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War
- Wikipedia Category: American Civil War Nurses
- Wikipedia Category: United States Sanitary Commission People
- Woman of the (19th) Century
- Wikipedia Category: Women in th American Civil War
- Women History: Civil War Nurses
Acknowledgment
- It is important to note how this page and United States Civil War Nurses started with a nod and deepest gratitude and thanks to Warren Kuntz who began this research and created a spreadsheet of nurses one cell at a time.
- His first post in G2G about this page as a resource is here: Create a FSP from a spreadsheet - Civil War Nurses Resource. His desire to bring this under-reported group of women to the WikiTree community is commendable and his passion to preserve their stories and remember their names is admirable. While Warren has lost his "genealogy mojo" and is taking a break from WikiTree, we continue working towards his goal, and hope to welcome him back soon.
- Warren's interest began with passing a bronze statute in Illinois and taking a picture of it: Mother Bickerdyke. Curious about who she was, he did a little research and developed a list of 300 nurses and resources, the start of this page. He found her profile, and added the photo to it.
- Warren thanks the Oregon Department, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1862-1865, which compiled some of the data used in the table. Please see their FindAGrave virtual cemetery Angels of the Battlefield,
- Warren thanks the Oregon Department, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1862-1865, which compiled some of the data used in the table. Please see their FindAGrave virtual cemetery Angels of the Battlefield,
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