They were extremely helpful as they assisted the soldiers in any way possible and they helped around the army a lot taking care of large or small tasks. Some of the jobs they took upon themselves were as maids, cooks, and many of them became army nurses. Nursing was known as a service that came with a payroll and it usually meant nurturing for the troops. They were not regarded as professional nurses trained to allocate medicines and compress the wounds, however most of them were followers and hired employees that were harrowed from camp and near by communities. On that note, plentiful nurses were originally camp followers: wives, mothers, daughters of male soldiers who were left with no choice but to follow due to the circumstances they were
