The books “Women at the Front” by Jane Schultz and “A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era: Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South” by Libra Hilde, each discuss the many experiences that women went through during their time in the Civil War. Women in the Civil War faced many different challenges, each of these books touch on similar challenges as well as different views on these challenges. Women had to endure more than just the actual caring of wounded soldiers, other aspects that they had to deal with involved class, race, and gaining political rights which separated them from the men that they were aiding as well as working under. Even though these books had different opinions about the similar topics, they each
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Class issues, Race issues, and wanting to keep the rights that they had been given during the war once the war had completed were what this book mainly focused on. This book was written to better inform about what nurses in the Civil War had gone through, as well as touch on aspects that you wouldn’t think about as being associated with nursing. So many historians seemed to focus more on the soldiers fighting the war that they had forgotten about the nurses that were there to provide the soldiers aid when they had fallen. The book “Worth a Dozen Men” focuses on the Civil War being one of the first stepping stones towards the Women’s Rights Movement. Hilde discusses how women realized that they were capable of being more than just a respectable women who runs a household. This author discusses their point by comparing and contrasting her own opinions about this matter to other authors that also wrote about similar topics involving Civil War nurses. These arguments are put together by providing evidence that supports their thesis …show more content…
They each explained their own opinions about the differences between Southern nurses and Union nurses. “Women at the Front” discusses how Southern nurses weren’t always able to be given the credit they had earned because they had not actually gone to an actual hospitals to give wounded soldiers the aid that they needed. “Southern women due to the circumstances of war had to relieve the suffering of soldiers in their own homes.” This would mean that these women who nursed these wounded men wouldn’t be on any hospital record of actually performing the aid they had given. This book also notes that the geography of where these battle took place also played a role in the differences between Southern and Union nurses. “Few Southern nurses left home to serve, however, because the war usually went to them. As Confederate troops passed through Southern towns, women had the opportunity to work in wayside or field hospitals that were established where the next battle was thought to take place.” Since most of the battles during the Civil War were fought in the South, Union nurses had to travel and leave their homes in order to provide their aid to the wounded soldiers, whereas Southern women had multiple opportunities to enter into a nursing position by the amount of aid that was needed if a battle occurred close to where they were living. The book “Worth a dozen men” also discusses the
Class issues, Race issues, and wanting to keep the rights that they had been given during the war once the war had completed were what this book mainly focused on. This book was written to better inform about what nurses in the Civil War had gone through, as well as touch on aspects that you wouldn’t think about as being associated with nursing. So many historians seemed to focus more on the soldiers fighting the war that they had forgotten about the nurses that were there to provide the soldiers aid when they had fallen. The book “Worth a Dozen Men” focuses on the Civil War being one of the first stepping stones towards the Women’s Rights Movement. Hilde discusses how women realized that they were capable of being more than just a respectable women who runs a household. This author discusses their point by comparing and contrasting her own opinions about this matter to other authors that also wrote about similar topics involving Civil War nurses. These arguments are put together by providing evidence that supports their thesis …show more content…
They each explained their own opinions about the differences between Southern nurses and Union nurses. “Women at the Front” discusses how Southern nurses weren’t always able to be given the credit they had earned because they had not actually gone to an actual hospitals to give wounded soldiers the aid that they needed. “Southern women due to the circumstances of war had to relieve the suffering of soldiers in their own homes.” This would mean that these women who nursed these wounded men wouldn’t be on any hospital record of actually performing the aid they had given. This book also notes that the geography of where these battle took place also played a role in the differences between Southern and Union nurses. “Few Southern nurses left home to serve, however, because the war usually went to them. As Confederate troops passed through Southern towns, women had the opportunity to work in wayside or field hospitals that were established where the next battle was thought to take place.” Since most of the battles during the Civil War were fought in the South, Union nurses had to travel and leave their homes in order to provide their aid to the wounded soldiers, whereas Southern women had multiple opportunities to enter into a nursing position by the amount of aid that was needed if a battle occurred close to where they were living. The book “Worth a dozen men” also discusses the