Mary A. Gardner Holland
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Mary A. Gardner Holland, also known as Mary G. Holland, was a Union nurse during the American Civil War.[1] The book begins with an introduction by Holland herself; she writes "what more fitting place for women with holy motives and tenderest sympathy than on those fields of blood and death or in retreats prepared for our suffering heroes?"[2] According to Holland's account, she worked in hospitals for about fourteen months. She would have enlisted early, she writes, if she didn't have an aging mother depending upon her.[3] Ultimately, Holland cared for her mother during the day then worked with the Sanitary Commission weekday evenings until Holland wrote to Dorothea Dix asking to be recruited.[4] Holland was stationed at Colombia College Hospital in Meridian Heights, a suburb of Washington DC. From there she went to West Washington and then to Annapolis, serving as a matron.[1]
Post-war life and book[]
Thirty years after the war, Holland compiled accounts from numerous Civil War nurses into her book Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War.[5] Her book was initially compiled in 1897; the book has recently been reissued.[5][6][7]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 7. ISBN 9781889020044.
- ↑ Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 9781889020044.
- ↑ Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 6. ISBN 9781889020044.
- ↑ Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. pp. 6–7. ISBN 9781889020044.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present" (in en). https://books.google.com/books?id=33MBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=mary+g+holland+civil+war&source=bl&ots=Vd7atLsPIR&sig=IcCTV4yVZ6kblc30kzzBwvNRg6I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ08ePwKzSAhUI_IMKHQQhCScQ6AEIVTAP#v=onepage&q=mary%20g%20holland%20&f=false.
- ↑ "Battlefield Medicine" (in en). http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/civilwar/civilwar1/medicine.
- ↑ McDevitt, Theresa (Winter 2007). "Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War/Turn Backward, O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton". pp. 85–87. http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=annals-of-iowa.
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