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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
aged their heroes to deeds of valor, and at times, ministered in their rude way to their wounds. The monks, at their monasteries, rendered some care and aid to the wounded in return for their exemption from plunder and rapine, and in the ninth century, an order of women consecrated to the work, the Beguines, predecessors of the modern Sisters of Charity, was established to minister to the sick and wounded of the armies which then, and for centuries afterward, scarred the face of continental Europe with battle-fields. With the Beguines, however, and their successors, patriotism was not so much the controlling motive of action, as the attainment of merit by those deeds of charity and self-sacrifice. In the wars of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and the early part of the nineteenth century, while the hospitals had a moderate share of fair ministrants, chiefly of the religious orders, the only female service on the battle-field or in the camp, often the scene of fatal epidemics, was th
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Part II. (search)
of nurses. Miss Dorothea L. Dix. Early history Becomes interested in the condition of prison convicts visit to Europe returns in 1837, and devotes herself to improving the condition of paupers, lunatics and prisoners her efforts for the establishment of insane Asylums Second visit to Europe her first work in the war the nursing of Massachusetts soldiers in Baltimore appointment as superintendent of nurses her selections difficulties in her position her other duties Mrs. Livereform, until the year 1834. At that time her health becoming greatly impaired, she gave up her school and embarked for Europe. Shortly before this period, she had inherited from a relative sufficient property to render her independent of daily exwork, peculiarly the object of her sympathies and labors. In the prosecution of these labors she made another voyage to Europe in 1858 or 1859, and continued to pursue them with indefatigable zeal and devotion. The labors of Miss Dix for the ins
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
e judged of, by the recorded statements concerning European ones. Her first tentative efforts at going to ts of them impaired health resignation she visits Europe, and spends eighteen months there, advocating as shing in Germany, England, and perhaps other parts of Europe. Mrs. Tyler, then a widow, was invited to assume tr her return there, and both in this country and in Europe, which she afterwards visited, often had occasion tringly to a belief which it had before scouted. In Europe, particularly, both in England and upon the Contine voyage as essential to her recovery, and a tour to Europe was therefore determined upon. She left the Nava, and rejoin her sister who had been some months in Europe, and who, with her family, were to be the travelinglland. Mrs. Tyler spent about eighteen months in Europe, traveling over various parts of the Continent, andiberty, upon the minds of persons of all classes in Europe. Her letters of introduction from her friends, fro
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Mary J. Safford. (search)
on the Hospital steamers among the hospitals at Cairo a merry Christmas for the soldiers stationed at Cairo illness induced by her over-exertion her tour in Europe her labors there, while in feeble health Mrs. Livermore's sketch of Miss Safford her personal appearance and petite figure an angel at Cairo that little ghysical abilities, that she labored beyond her endurance, and her health finally became so much impaired that she was induced to leave the work and make a tour in Europe, where at this writing she still is, though an invalid. Her good deeds even followed her in her travels in a foreign land, and no sooner had the German States be of the injury to the spine, occasioned by her life in the army and hospitals. The physicians subsequently prescribed travel, and she has been since that time in Europe. She is highly educated, speaks French and German as well as English, and some Italian. She is the most indomitable little creature living, heroic, uncomplainin
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Louisa Maertz. (search)
she was of a delicate constitution, and suffered much from ill health; and at the age of eighteen years she was sent to Europe in the hope that she might derive benefit from the mineral springs of Germany and from travel and change of climate. Two friends of the Monods of Paris, Guizot, the Gurneys of England, Merle D'Aubigne, of Geneva, and other literary people of Europe, with several of whom she became acquainted. From this visit abroad she received much benefit, and her general health was excited a deep interest in her mind, and a desire to devote herself in some way to their relief. After her return from Europe it became an absorbing aspiration and the subject of earnest prayer that God would show her some way in which she could b was obliged to return home to restore her own exhausted energies. At this time her parents urged her to go with them to Europe, wishing to take her away from scenes of suffering, and prostrating disease, but she declined to go, and, on regaining a