On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War

In this volume, the author unearths the remarkable stories of the hidden women who worked as pioneer doctors on the Civil War battlefields, in typhoid-ridden camps in the Spanish-American War, and on the home front and overseas in World War I. She tells of the forgotten nurses and nuns who gave comfort to the sick and dying in the Spanish-American War, and of a woman sculptor who helped restore the confidence of soldiers mutilated in World War I. In doing so, she paints portraits of the heroic women who were willing to confront barriers at times when the military and the public were resistant to the idea of women on the battlefield.