Women Working in U.S. Army Hospitals During the Civil War
A register preserved in the National Archives lists the names of about 2,773 women who served as nurses, cooks, and laundresses in U.S. Army hospitals during the Civil War. The
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“Mother Ransom”
By Melissa A. Winn By the time the Civil War erupted, Eleanor Ransom had already lived a full life—as a wife, a mother, and a Hoosier shaped by years of