The Changing Role Of Nurses During The Civil War
The Civil War is remembered by its struggles. The things that men were put through in order to win. Throughout the civil war, there were many deaths from not only the fighting but sometimes the lack thereof. Sitting in the camps, soldiers were free to catch deadly diseases. These diseases could have been prevented had they had sufficient doctors and nurses. Men were constantly trying to be fit into the little room that hospitals had, and fit into the tight schedules that doctors and nurses were trying to balance. The men and women behind the battle lines were fighting a battle just as difficult as the one on the front lines.
War was everywhere at this point in time. You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing how many men had died at the last …show more content…
Nurses were in the battlefields fighting the large numbers of men coming into the doctors tents for not only illnesses but injuries ranging from simple cuts to full body parts blown off. At the beginning of the civil war, nurses were simply women who came to the war to volunteer but after the battle of Bull run, they were organized into actual nurses who worked for the men fighting. Nurses were struggling to keep up with the patients coming in asking to be saved. Not all could be saved. There was just simply not enough room, time, medications, or hands. Exact numbers were not taken down so there is no way for us to know how many nurses were aiding the civil war. But, it is estimated that there was approximately a couple thousand nurses in total. Because the Union had more soldiers, there were more men coming in. There were also more men that were inexperienced. This led to the men constantly needing to be checked in to the hospitals. Even though there were more nurses on the Union’s side, they still would have been stressed out and struggling to keep up with the patients. On the Confederates side, they knew how to use guns, they were more experienced, and there was less of them which meant that the nurses were not constantly being flooded with more and more men unlike the Union. The Confederate side only had 4 states that had formal relief agencies. The nurses on both sides were still working as fast as they …show more content…
The Civil War had too much of everything it didn’t need and not enough of what it did. If the Civil War had had more doctors and nurses then the death toll could have been brought down. The need for new medical techniques was so high that if there had been men and women to do research, medical advances could have been more extensive and come quicker. The Civil War desperately needed medical personnel that it did not have. On the other hand, it had diseases that it definitely did not need. The diseases had many places to advance unlike the doctors and nurses. It killed thousands of men without making a sound. If the Civil War had had less disease and more medical professionals, it could have had a more positive end. More men going home to their families and more men to tell of their horrors on the
War was everywhere at this point in time. You couldn’t go anywhere without hearing how many men had died at the last …show more content…
Nurses were in the battlefields fighting the large numbers of men coming into the doctors tents for not only illnesses but injuries ranging from simple cuts to full body parts blown off. At the beginning of the civil war, nurses were simply women who came to the war to volunteer but after the battle of Bull run, they were organized into actual nurses who worked for the men fighting. Nurses were struggling to keep up with the patients coming in asking to be saved. Not all could be saved. There was just simply not enough room, time, medications, or hands. Exact numbers were not taken down so there is no way for us to know how many nurses were aiding the civil war. But, it is estimated that there was approximately a couple thousand nurses in total. Because the Union had more soldiers, there were more men coming in. There were also more men that were inexperienced. This led to the men constantly needing to be checked in to the hospitals. Even though there were more nurses on the Union’s side, they still would have been stressed out and struggling to keep up with the patients. On the Confederates side, they knew how to use guns, they were more experienced, and there was less of them which meant that the nurses were not constantly being flooded with more and more men unlike the Union. The Confederate side only had 4 states that had formal relief agencies. The nurses on both sides were still working as fast as they …show more content…
The Civil War had too much of everything it didn’t need and not enough of what it did. If the Civil War had had more doctors and nurses then the death toll could have been brought down. The need for new medical techniques was so high that if there had been men and women to do research, medical advances could have been more extensive and come quicker. The Civil War desperately needed medical personnel that it did not have. On the other hand, it had diseases that it definitely did not need. The diseases had many places to advance unlike the doctors and nurses. It killed thousands of men without making a sound. If the Civil War had had less disease and more medical professionals, it could have had a more positive end. More men going home to their families and more men to tell of their horrors on the