How did American nurses improve the health of military personnel during wartime early in America’s history?
Women volunteered to care for both Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War; but Dorothea Dix, as Superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army, organized them. Clara Barton also served in the Civil War and later founded the Red Cross in the United States. Jane Delano served during World War I and later worked for the Red Cross. Annie Goodrich was the dean of the Army School of Nursing after World War I and later became the first dean of the Yale University School of Nursing. Amelia Greenwald pioneered international public health nursing after serving in several field hospitals during World War I.
