While men typically occupy the front lines of Civil War narratives, war-time hospitals created space for women to play significant roles. Millions of soldiers were injured during the war, with hundreds of thousands requiring hospitalization to various degrees. The sudden necessity of large volumes of nurses to work in the hundreds of temporary war-era hospitals…
Emily Quiner, a nurse in a Union hospital in Memphis returns to her home in Madison, Wisconsin, and worships in her home church this morning. Prior to the war Quiner was a school teacher in Madison and a member of the Janesville Baptist Church. For the past two months, however, she has been serving as…
Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch profiles a Richmond Baptist college that is a newly-converted Confederate hospital, one of dozens of hospitals in the city treating wounded Confederate soldiers. Richmond Female Institute. – This fine building, on 10th street has been taken by the authorities and is now being rapidly fitted up as a hospital for the…