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]

In 1897, more than 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.[2][3][4] 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?"[5]

According to Holland's account, she worked in hospitals for about fourteen months. She would have enlisted earlier, she writes, if she didn't have an aging mother depending upon her.[6] Ultimately, Holland cared for her mother during the day then worked with the Sanitary Commission on weekday evenings until Holland wrote to Dorothea Dix asking to be recruited.[7] Holland was stationed at Columbia College Hospital in Meridian Heights, a suburb of Washington, D.C. From there she went to West Washington and then to Annapolis, serving as a matron.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 7. ISBN 9781889020044.
  2. ↑ Pauw, Linda Grant De (11 July 2014). Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806170749. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  3. ↑ "Battlefield Medicine". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  4. ↑ 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". Annals of Iowa. 66 (1): 85–87. doi:10.17077/0003-4827.1092.
  5. ↑ Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. pp. 5–6. ISBN 9781889020044.
  6. ↑ Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 6. ISBN 9781889020044.
  7. ↑ Holland, Mary Gardner (2002). Our Army Nurses:Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville: Edinborough Press. pp. 6–7. ISBN 9781889020044.


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