Below is our current list: Aiken, Eliza N. Although some recent discoveries have expanded our list, our efforts to document these compassionate women will continue. Even pension records do not adequately reflect the number of women who served in this capacity as women were not allowed to file for pension benefits until the Union Army Nurses Pension Act was passed in 1892.ĭetermining the number of Nurses who represented Vermont during the Civil War is just as difficult. Some of these dedicated women never officially became members of the military, attending to the wounded and sick as volunteers. The number of female Civil War Nurses will never be known with certainty, but it is estimated to be in the thousands. (New York Times, March 22, 1864) What Women Did for the War, and What the War Did for Women, a Memorial Day address by Josiah H. President Abraham Lincoln, March 18, 1864, at the Patent Office Fair. I will close by saying God bless the women of America!" "I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women, but I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, It would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I think they deserve a monument quite as much as the soldiers but I have never found one for them. Yet during the war these brave women somehow found time to do the men's work too and to make clothing for the boys in the South. In those days of few inventions the life of a woman on the farm was hard work from day-light to dark, with no vacation.
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