Can u find abou WOMEN and AFRICAN AMERICAN in the civil war?
At least 3,000 women held paid nursing postions in the north and South, and thousands of others worked as volunteers. “The war is certainly ours as well as men’s” said Kate Cummings of Mobile, Alabama, who became the matron of a large Confederate hospital. Women played a vital role in collecting and delivering essentil supplies of food and medicines to the army. In the north their efforts developed into the United States Sanitary Commission, which performed a critical role in providing food and medical services for the soldiers. “The necessary supplies are almost unversally collected, assorted, and dispatched, and re-collected, re-assorted and re-dispatched, by women, representing with great impartiality every grade of society in the Republic” said Alfred Bloor of the Sanitary Commission. Clara Barton began actively soliciting donations and supplies, and delivering them to the Union Army. At first she distributed her supplies at hospitals, then began meeting ships and trains carrying w
