Faces of Civil War Nurses bull run Cigar Gallery

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others were released by sympathetic owners to serve the war effort

The photographs are wartime portraits of men and women presented to families

The Sailor Who Would Be a Marine

Faces of Civil War Nurses bull run Cigar GalleryA collection of rare archival images and biographical sketches of the dauntless women who served as nurses and caregivers during the Civil War. During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies, becoming nurses, or even marching off to war as vivandires, unofficial attachs to the regiments. In