The Civil War had is one of the worst wars ever fought. There were challenges for the North and the South. Lincoln was elected President in November, 1860 and made his inaugural speech in March 1861, were two weeks before on February 16th, President Davis gave his inaugural speech to the Confederate States. Lincoln and Davis both were born in Kentucky, less than one-hundred miles from each other. Lincoln had very little schooling, was known as a storekeeper, country postmaster, rail-splitter, flatboatman, and a captain in the Black Hawk War.1 Davis was went to school at Transylvania University and then on to West point. Davis saw service in the Black Hawk War as a minor officer in the Wisconsin army post.2 Before the War started; both
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On February 20th, 1862, Lincoln lost his son William Wallace Lincoln to what people said to be typhoid. Davis lost his son on April 30th 1864; Joseph Davis had fallen form the top balcony. Both men were deeply depressed, yet both men allowed one day to morn, before going back to work. The war was hard on everyone in the United States and the Confederate States. The women and the colored saw what it was like just as the white men did, sometimes worse. The women in the area had to do everything back home because their husbands or brothers were fighting the war. The women in agricultural field working on the farms kept it up while the men were away, thanks to the help of increased use of farm machinery.8 A traveler in Iowa during 1862 wrote that “ I met more women driving teams on the road and saw more at work in the fields than men” Women of the North worked in the areas that they know, textiles, clothing, shoemaking.9 Florence Nightingale, the hero of most women then and now, revolutionized army medical services. She also made nursing a profession and established the world’s first school of nursing at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London in 1860.10 Several women of the South volunteered themselves to help the wondered soldiers as nurses and found hospitals. Richmond had on of …show more content…
The W.C.A.R first task was a training program for nurses.12 Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to earn an M.D. in 1949, organized a meeting of three-thousand women at Copper Institute in New York on April 29th, 1861. Clara Barton was a spinster working as a clerk in the patent office when war broke out. She became a one-women soldiers’ aid society, gathering supplies and medicine, and showed up on several battlefields or in field hospitals caring for the wounded.13 Another woman to mention is Mary Ann Bickerdyke, who at forty-five began her services in 1861,at the fever-ridden army base in Cairo. She became an angel to the enlisted men calling her Mother Bickerdyke. She took care of Grants army and then Sherman’s armies from Fort Donelson to Atlanta, earning the respect of both Generals. She was the only woman that Sherman allowed in his advance bas camp.14 The women in that time period served as good as the men fighting the
On February 20th, 1862, Lincoln lost his son William Wallace Lincoln to what people said to be typhoid. Davis lost his son on April 30th 1864; Joseph Davis had fallen form the top balcony. Both men were deeply depressed, yet both men allowed one day to morn, before going back to work. The war was hard on everyone in the United States and the Confederate States. The women and the colored saw what it was like just as the white men did, sometimes worse. The women in the area had to do everything back home because their husbands or brothers were fighting the war. The women in agricultural field working on the farms kept it up while the men were away, thanks to the help of increased use of farm machinery.8 A traveler in Iowa during 1862 wrote that “ I met more women driving teams on the road and saw more at work in the fields than men” Women of the North worked in the areas that they know, textiles, clothing, shoemaking.9 Florence Nightingale, the hero of most women then and now, revolutionized army medical services. She also made nursing a profession and established the world’s first school of nursing at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London in 1860.10 Several women of the South volunteered themselves to help the wondered soldiers as nurses and found hospitals. Richmond had on of …show more content…
The W.C.A.R first task was a training program for nurses.12 Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to earn an M.D. in 1949, organized a meeting of three-thousand women at Copper Institute in New York on April 29th, 1861. Clara Barton was a spinster working as a clerk in the patent office when war broke out. She became a one-women soldiers’ aid society, gathering supplies and medicine, and showed up on several battlefields or in field hospitals caring for the wounded.13 Another woman to mention is Mary Ann Bickerdyke, who at forty-five began her services in 1861,at the fever-ridden army base in Cairo. She became an angel to the enlisted men calling her Mother Bickerdyke. She took care of Grants army and then Sherman’s armies from Fort Donelson to Atlanta, earning the respect of both Generals. She was the only woman that Sherman allowed in his advance bas camp.14 The women in that time period served as good as the men fighting the