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| Civilian |
| 1802-1887 |
| Maine
|
| Leader of the Union's
Women Nurses |
|
As wartime leader of the Union's
Women Nurses, Dorothea Dix set a quiet example of indomitable
efficiency, impressing even General
Sherman. Her standards were so high that many volunteers
were turned away from battlefield postings. A schoolteacher
by training, she later became an ardent crusader for reforms
in treatment of the mentally ill in prisons, asylums,
and elsewhere. Dix's articulate arguments gained her worldwide
attention. |
