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"I could not trust myself with a pen." - Amanda Akin

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"An untold number were beaten to death by masters and mistresses seeking to crush their bid for freedom."

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These quotes explain how the people felt and what they witnessed during the Civil war..

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"I don't want to sit here and do the polite for a mess table, but would much prefer to live on hard tack and a cup of tea."

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"I had forgotten how to feel... it seemed as if I were entirely separated from the world I had left behind."

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"The Patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins"-Clara Barton

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"I have gone wherever I was asked since I came here, and nearly killed myself."

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Emily exclaims, "I wish you could have seen the face of one poor white soldier as I was bathing him the other day."

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- Nursing was not a profession until the 1800's
- Women of all classes worked the war
- Working as a nurse or hospital worker was not considered a reputable job for a woman.
-  Contrabands  were put to work in Union camp hospitals doing various menial jobs such as cooking and laundry
- Civil War nurses are considered as angels on the battlefield
- 3,000-8,000 women volunteered to become nurses with no prior experience
- Dorothea Dix founded the American Red Cross
- Women who dared to enter the military hospitals in the South with the intent of providing nursing care were treated with disrespect
- The work of Florence Nightingale had begun to improve the image of nursing
- After the war was over, several women who had worked as nurses on the front lines took leading roles in the establishment of nurse training schools in the United States.

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What people in early America felt, saw, or understood about diseases/medical professionals/medical innovations was since most nurses were not trained to perform the procedures they did and they didn't know about diseases so they lost more people to disease than to other things. Many nurses did everything in their power to save their patients but with the little resources they had, they lost so many people. Later on in the future medical innovations started to become known and they started losing fewer people. They also began to train their nurses more and it continued to evolve into what it is now.