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By Jane E. Schultz
As many as 20,000 girls labored in Union and accomplice hospitals in the course of America's bloodiest struggle. Black and white, and from quite a few social sessions, those girls served as nurses, directors, matrons, seamstresses, chefs, laundresses, and custodial employees. Jane E. Schultz offers the 1st complete historical past of those lady reduction staff, exhibiting how the family and armed forces arenas merged in Civil battle the USA, blurring the road among homefront and battlefront.
Schultz makes use of executive files, deepest manuscripts, and released resources by means of and approximately ladies clinic staff, a few of whom are familiar--such as Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Louisa might Alcott, and Sojourner Truth--but so much of whom aren't recognized. analyzing the lives and legacies of those girls, Schultz considers who they have been, how they grew to become considering wartime health center paintings, how they adjusted to it, and the way they challenged it. She demonstrates that category, race, and gender roles associated girl staff with squaddies, either black and white, yet grew to become websites of clash among the ladies and medical professionals or even between themselves.
Schultz additionally explores the women's postwar lives--their specialist and household offerings, their pursuit of pensions, and their memorials to the struggle in released narratives. strangely few parlayed their battle adventure into postwar clinical paintings, and their super diverse postwar reports, Schultz argues, defy any easy narrative of pre-professionalism, triumphalism, or conciliation.
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108 Cooks and laundresses hired directly by the Union army made less than nurses: between $6 and $10 per month. Regimental laundresses were paid directly by the soldiers for whom they washed, which made regular wages more elusive. Most women gladly accepted pay, but some let it be known that the amount was inadequate. ”110 If the army could not pay women a living wage, argued Emmeline Tenney, then it could not expect to retain competent workers. As a middle-class white, Tenney could not simply say that she needed her wages; like others who shared her class interests, her words betrayed the view that the best workers, indeed the most patriotic ones, were those with more than a common pedigree.
If there is a place for me among your suffering ones I am willing and should be happy to give you my servises [sic]. — Mrs. Nathan A. Tinkham to the Secretary of the Christian Commission, November 28, 1864 Women of both sections began to offer themselves for hospital service immediately after the war began. Their ambition grew out of a need to do more than prepare food, clothing, and medical supplies for men at the front. Some felt it a patriotic duty akin to the soldier’s; others spoke of religious calling, Christian duty.
Though not always paid, they received food in exchange for their labor. S. ) ceived no pay in the four months past. The Paymaster refused to pay them as formerly and said they would receive their pay from the Medical Purveyor. There is no Medical Purveyor in this department. ”119 Workers were at the mercy of an undependable pay system that was also segregated by race. 120 Throughout the war, middle-class women who volunteered for service carefully set themselves apart from those who received wages.