Mary A. Bickerdyke
Recollections of the "Garden city" of the sixties
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Title | Mary A. Bickerdyke |
Description | Caption: "Mrs. Mary A. (""Mother"") Bickerdyke (Organizer of Military Hospitals and Friend of the Soldiers) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Mary Bickerdyke was a volunteer nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the Civil War. From text: "I cannot refrain from going outside the local record to say a word about Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, of Cleveland, who visited Chicago more than once, when things seemed to need stirring up a bit. ... At one time she had charge of the Gayoso Hospital, at Memphis .. [She] was with the Army of the Tennessee at Mission Ridge, and was the only woman in the field hospital there. Thence she went to the field hospital near Chattanooga, where she was joined by Mrs. Eliza A. Porter, an accomplished lady, who had been sent by the Northwestern Sanitary Commission at Chicago, and was thereafter her constant associate. Later... she followed Sherman's army through the Carolinas." |
Date | 1910 |
Type | Photograph |
File Name | bygonedaysinchic00cook_raw_0183.jp2 |
Source Page | http://www.archive.org/stream/bygonedaysinchic00cook#page/114/mode/2up |
Link to the Full-Text | http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:bygonedaysinchic00cook |
Language | eng |
Subject | Nurses |
Coverage-Spatial | Chicago (Ill.) |
Coverage-Temporal | 1910-1919 |
Publisher | |
Rights | No Copyright - United States |
Rights Description | Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu. |
Book Title | |
Author of the Book | Cook, Frederick Francis |
Collection Title | Picture Chicago |
Collection | Picture Chicago |
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