Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South

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307 index activism, 14 African Americans: duties, 6; excluded from public sphere, 12; as hospital labor, 135–36. See also slaves aid societies, 107–8, 209, 213, 253n1, 285n27; Charleston relief society, 109; civilian women, 124–25; Columbus, Georgia, Ladies’ Aid Society, 113; Greenville Ladies’ Aid Society, 128; Ladies’ Memorial Aid Society, 211–12; Soldiers’ Relief Society of New Berne, North Carolina, 114; South Carolina Hospital Aid Society, 22, 35, 183; Southern Mothers’ Society, 32–33; Southern Relief Association, 194 Alabama hospitals, 124–25, 128; appropriations and donations, 21; change to Confederate hospitals, 23; J. Hopkins establishes, 19–23, 80, 85, 110; Second Alabama Hospital, 139; Third Alabama Hospital, 141; usefulness, 24 Almshouse Hospital, 26 Alston, Harold, 101–2 American Revolution, 2 amputees, 164–65 Anderson, A. A., 170 Anderson, L. H., 111, 171–72 Anderson, William, 207 Andrew, Garnett, 205 “Angel of the Hospital, The,” 104 angel of the South, 24 antebellum southern culture, 3, 6, 10, 250n75; gender conventions, 209; mothering, 13; nursing shaped by, 75; paternalistic responsibility, 215 apprenticeship, 38 Army of Tennessee hospitals, 32, 40, 183 Ars Moriendi, 93 Attie, Jeanie, 8 authority: Beers, 166; J. Hopkins, 167; matrons, 149; S. Smith, 166–67 Bacot, Ada, 22, 39, 43, 94, 159, 242n42; acclimates to hospital work, 70; on death, 92, 97–98; on delivery from enemy, 198; dresses wounds, 45; on fatigue, 71; on food for sick, 115; on gratitude, 187; on homesickness, 174; perseverance, 64; slaves and, 145–47; social life, 183; on soul, 48; on state duty, 63; after war, 279n42; as widow, 64 Ballard, Aurelius, 178 Barnwell, Robert, 35, 36, 64 Barringer, Maria, 118, 121; hospital visiting, 259n59 battles: Chickamauga, 124, 172, 186; Fair Oaks, 18; Manassas, 17, 19; Sharpsburg, 121; Shiloh, 32, 66, 70, 76; Wilderness, 61, 185, 188; Wytheville, 118 battlefield deaths, 7, 251n81 Beavess, James, 79 Beckwith, Margaret Stanly, 116–17 Beers, Fannie, 4, 50, 88; authority, 166; at Buckner Hospital, 28, 70, 145, 148; children of, 64–65; composure, index 308 Beers, Fannie (continued) 98; on Confederate morale, 206; constancy and, 55; on despotic power, 216; on diet, 114; dresses wounds, 45–46; entertaining, 49; on fatigue, 71; first patient, 27; foragers and, 41; freelance nursing, 34; hiring of, 159; on J. Hopkins, 154, 167; McAllister on, 177; mementos, 179; memoir, 200–201; memories, 182; moral support provided by, 52; on mortality rates, 32; nursing and, 42, 190–91, 207; on parting souls, 97; on patriotism, 202; physicians praise, 160; Promised Land of, 176; on shortages, 186; on slaves, 142, 145, 148; social life, 183; soldier friends, 218; soldier husband, 64; on soldiers, 201–2; special corps of helpers, 137; on surgeons, 53, 161, 164; volunteering and, 60; working-class women and, 151–52 Behan, Mrs. William J., 210, 285n27 Bellevue Hospital, 29 Benson, Barry, 170 Bibb, Sophia, 75, 220; devotion to, 176; memorial work, 212; at Montgomery, Alabama, Ladies’ Hospital, 124–25; patriotism, 207 Bibles, 49 Blalock, Emma Tyler, 59; on flirtation, 90 Bolton, Jason, 29 Bonham, Mary, 101 Booth, John Wilkes, 193 Bowyer, Kate, 204–5 Boysen, Christine, 193 Bragg, Braxton, 44 Brown, Joseph, 131 Brown, Pat, 171 Bryce, Ellen Porter, 51, 66, 184, 211, 262n92 Buck, Lucy, 92, 258n56 Buckner Hospital, 41, 44, 65, 182; Beers at, 28, 70, 145, 148 Buie, Mary Anne, 123; seminary of, 193; as Soldier’s Friend, 81 Burdett, Samuel M., 21–22 Byrd Island Hospital, 139 Caldwell, Anne F., 84 Calvinists, 95 Campbell, Jacqueline Glass, 9 Camp Nicholls, 287n39 Camp Watts Hospital, 172 Camp Winder Hospital, 26, 49, 67, 99–101, 112; capacity, 267n16; C. Cary at, 190; hospital visiting, 119 Carmichael, Ada, 86 Carrington, William, 27–29, 31, 140 Cary, Constance, 18, 50, 206; buys supplies , 61; at Camp Winder Hospital, 190; on civilian women, 130; feeds men, 185; moral support provided by, 52; on Richmond society, 190; writing, 195 Cary, Monimia Fairfax, 61, 71–72, 220 Central of Georgia Railroad, 146 chaplains, 48. See also clergymen charisma, 69 Charleston relief society, 109 Chaudron, Adelaide de Vendel, 167 Cherokee Springs, Georgia, 41 Chesnut, Mary, 26, 37, 48; on McCord’s labors, 64, 72, 160, 207; on shortcomings , 72–73; on wayside hospitals, 129; on Webb’s compassion, 55, 72; on working-class women, 153 Cheves, John R., 66 Chickamauga, Battle of, 124, 172, 186 children, 64–65, 217, 220. See also orphans Chimborazo Hospital, 30, 38, 99, 138, 267n16; Pember at, 43–44, 182, 192, 225n13; slaves as hospital labor, 138–40; as small village, 40 civilian women: aid...