"Whether you are the first group of 20 female nurses ... to thousands of nurses, lobbying for expanded health care for military families and leading the NNC through World War I and the 1918 ...

women took on a wide range of military roles in the Civil War. Sarah Edmonds participated in the Peninsula Campaign as a soldier, spy, and courier—and even ended up working as a (male) nurse at ...

D.C. to work as a clerk at the U.S. Patent Office (in the building that is now the National Portrait Gallery), where she was one of the few women on staff. The week after the Civil War broke out ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In honor of Women’s History Month, local historical society chapters paid tribute to Civil War nurse and Fort Wayne native Helena Wolff at Lindenwood Cemetery on ...

A curiosity, yes, but to the surprise of many Civil War buffs even today, Clark was by no means unique. She was one of an estimated 400 women who took up arms in the war; they were not nurses ...