This letter was written by Confederate Volunteer Zachariah H.J. Benefield to his wife, Sarah Jane Gore, on April, 1864. Benefield was enlisted in the Franklin Volunteers, Company G 7th Georgia infantry regiment. His rank is unspecified indicating that he was likely a Private, as most higher ranked individuals saw their rank as a badge of their experience and thus were more likely to include it in their letter. In the letter, Benefield uses run-on sentences, numerous misspelled words, and incorrect
With the advent of the 1920s and the signing of the Nineteenth Amendment came a rapid movement toward women’s rights. It sped up with the beginning of World War II where six million women went to work in military factories, producing ammunition and other military goods for the sixteen million troops fighting abroad. The end of the war brought the realization that American women could work just as hard and efficiently as American men. Thus the idea of feminism was born. From here, the momentum continued
Nursing and Medicine Of the American Civil War Kristy Michelle Pickard-4756 History 2111 – Fall 2009 On April 12, 1861 in Fort Sumter, SC Confederate troops fired the first shots of the Four Year American Civil War. After the first few battles were fought, both sides faced the realization of how they desperately needed doctors and nurses to care for the injured soldiers. (1) The first nurses were recuperating soldiers (rebel) however; their own illnesses prevented them from providing proper
during the war. I will also include information from letters and documents that the nurse and doctors wrote while the Civil War was going one and what kind of establishments were created and the kind of equipment they used in the hospital. Since the period of the Civil War was and is consider to be the start and growth of the medical industry it is important for me to find out why. Advances included amputation and the anesthesia inhaler. The surgeon noticed the best way to save deadly infections was
1.) Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Edited by Bessie Z. Jones. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. Hospital Sketches is a compilation of three short stories based on the letters Louisa May Alcott sent home to her family in Concord, Massachusetts during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army in Georgetown, which lies just outside of Washington, D.C. Alcott explains her decision to become a nurse and the journey from Massachusetts
United States, the southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. To this day, it is still unclear whether the southern states had any legal basis for seceding but the fact of the matter is the federal government did not have any power to prevent them at the time. The conflict during the Civil War was whether slavery was morally acceptable but the main reason for the war was states’ rights to own
The role of women in the United States changed significantly during the Civl War. Before the Civil War, women stayed at home and cared for their children and worked on just about every other chore there was to do around the house. But the Civil War changed much of that. Many brave women decided to take it upon themselves to break out and re-define themselves by choosing to become spies, disguising themselves as male soldiers, becoming nurses, or for newly freed slave women to begin a new life in
medical fields. They created a system called triage which assessed the level of urgency the patients. A woman named Clara Barton was a nurse who went on to found the Red Cross. Some wrote letters to lonely soldiers, some took wounded into their homes. They comforted soldiers on their deathbed, and also aided surgeons with surgery. Some women acted as spies for the North or South. However, some women disguised themselves as men to to get into the army.
Many Americans debate the fact whether slavery was a key factor in the American Civil War. However, No One ever thought such war would bring unimaginable scale of deaths; that enter the lives of American people like never before. Throughout the war Americans tried to produce new ways of coping with death. Just as Faust stated, “neither side could have imagined the magnitude and length of the conflict that unfolded, nor the death tolls that proved its terrible cost.”1 The death tolls were so
During the Civil war,women played very important parts. 400 women and more disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies. A good amount of women served as spies and nurses. A handful of them disguised themselves as men and joined the war. The women at home took on the husband, brother, and father roles. In the past generations, women improved their educational standing, acquired greater access to manufactured goods, and secured additional legal rights by the mid-1800s