As such, the Civil War also functions as a useful starting point for investigating the history of racial disparities in both health and health care in the United States.

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The female students – numbering 20 to 30 at a time – lived at school and wore nurses’ uniforms to rigorous classes on anatomy, surgical nursing, physiology, chemistry, sanitation and ethics.

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A Quaker widow and U.S. Sanitary Commission agent, Bickerdyke traveled with the Union army, offering nursing support to the injured soldiers at 19 battlefields and assisting with amputations.

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Born 200 years ago in Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, a Civil War scout, nurse and spy, and one of the greatest freedom fighters in our nation’s history.