1867 Women of the Civil War Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice 1st ed

Shortly after the end of the war, the author gathered the narratives of dozens of women who went to the battlefields of the war between the states to minister to the wounded.

Many of them were reluctant to tell what they had done, but there are over 40 included here.

The story of the war will never be fully or written if the achievements of women in it are untold.

They do not figure in the official reports, they are not gazetted for deeds as gallant as ever were done.

The names of thousands are unknown beyond the neighborhood where they live or the hospitals where they loved to labor, yet there is no feature in our war more creditable to us as a nation, none from its positive newness so well worthy of record.

Frank Moore