Hilde, Libra Rose (Author)
Harvard University
Gienapp, William E.
Edition Details: Advisor: Gienapp, William E.
Physical Details: 698 pp.
Language: English
Civil War nurses, the home front, and soldiers believed that the presence of women in hospitals improved medical care. Women provided care that conformed to the expectations of the antebellum period, when the sick and wounded were treated within their own homes. Female nurses ministered not only to the physical needs of soldiers, but provided emotional and spiritual support. The attendance of women made men less prone to depression and homesickness, psychological factors that affect mortality. Soldiers found the work of women in hospitals a source of consolation and hope amidst suffering and constant death. Through personal care and caring relationships, nurses had a significant impact on morale, patriotism, and mortality. Nurses comforted the dying, imbuing deaths far from home and among strangers with a humanity they often lacked in a conflict characterized by mass graves and anonymous death. Female nurses mitigated the social upheaval caused by the war for both soldiers and their families, and had a significant impact on soldiers' morale, patriotism, and mortality rates in hospitals. Their work helped to maintain the war effort and civilian involvement in both sections, a crucial factor in a war fought by elected governments. Northern nurses frequently experienced a profound personal growth and a changing sense self-worth as a result of their work, and many refused to return to strictly domestic lives after the war. Faced with the shock and humiliation of losing, and concerned with rebuilding their lives, southern women did not have the luxury of creating novel roles for themselves during and immediately following the war. However, they quickly regrouped and formed the core of post-war political activity among southern women as leaders of memorial associations and promoters of the Lost Cause. Memorial work influenced education, race relations, and politics in the post-war South.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 64 (2003): 1817. UMI order no. 3091579.
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