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Research Resources: Nurses - US Civil War Era

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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
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

Graf, Mercedes, "On the field of mercy : women medical volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War, 2010",

Searchable Databases

Videos

Websites & Articles

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,




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