While a woman’s place was certainly considered to be the home during the Victorian era, many women defied this tradition during the American Civil War, leaving their homes and sometimes even their hometowns to do what they could for the war effort.
One of the most common roles that women took on during the Civil [...]

There was no penicillin. No oxygen tanks. No sterile surgical field. No intravenous lines. Little or no sanitation.
The hospital and other medical care of the Civil War era offered none of these medical treatments and procedures that we now take for granted as necessities. Is it any wonder, then, that [...]