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    Volunteer nurses like Clara Barton and Dorthea Dix helped establish nursing corps during the Civil War, caring for soldiers and earning the nickname "Angels of the Battlefield". Over 600 women served as nurses, lacking professional training but providing vital care in 12 army hospitals. The document highlights the experiences of Georgeanna Woolsey, who was delighted by the clean and comfortable arrangements at a Georgetown hospital despite the hard work and unfair treatment nurses often faced.

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    Volunteer nurses like Clara Barton and Dorthea Dix helped establish nursing corps during the Civil War, caring for soldiers and earning the nickname "Angels of the Battlefield". Over 600 women served as nurses, lacking professional training but providing vital care in 12 army hospitals. The document highlights the experiences of Georgeanna Woolsey, who was delighted by the clean and comfortable arrangements at a Georgetown hospital despite the hard work and unfair treatment nurses often faced.

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    CIVIL WAR NURSES

    By: Alyssa
    Wallen

    EXPLANATION
    Voluntary
    Clara Barton & Dorthea Dix

    Nursing corps
    Angels of the battlefield
    Red Cross
    1983 on postage stamp

    Lacked professional training


    Started with men then women
    600 women, 12 hospitals
    Nurses of the Civil War

    GEORGEANNA WOOLSEY
    Miss Dix received us kindly and gave us a good deal of
    information about the hospitals, and this morning we went to
    the Georgetown Hospital to see for ourselves. We were
    delighted with all the arrangements. Everything was clean and
    comfortable. We shall go again and take papers and
    magazines.
    - July 1861 , Washington D.C.

    MOST INTERESTING THING


    Lack of training
    Hard work of the women
    Unfair treatment

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    Web. 29 Nov. 2014.
    Georgeanna Woolsey. Digital image. River Nor th. River Nor th Fiction,
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