Mike Serpa
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- Jan 24, 2013
Which woman was most valuable to the CSA/USA Army?
Thanks for you insight. Neat story about JPK's brother. My answer was nurse.I couldn't vote, Mike, sorry! It isn't possible plus, some choices vital to the army are not on the ballet- civilian women, teachers, the ground swell of support from home- wives.
I mean, asking this question is a little like asking which finger you'd lop off and still have a hand function, you know?
Tough in comparisons, too. With so few Vivandier, how do we gauge value? But our most famous, Tepe, was so valuable by way of aid where she was ( not to an entire army ), we'll never know the lives saved. Our female soldiers? No more or less than the men; you'd have to calculate how valuable was each private to a company, company to regiment, regiment to.... like the King's horse and a careless blacksmith, every soldier was vital.
Famous examples but few spies in comparison to say, nurses. Valuable as events transpired, each was different, too. We do know Grant told Elizabeth Van Lew Richmond would not have been taken without her. I'm a little lopsided on the topic of Van Lew, her hugest fan because she scooped up JPK's brother, a Federal prisoner in Richmond, and took him home to nurse his Typhoid. Not very objective!
To witness from this distance, various unhelpful attitudes towards nurses, you'd think ' Not Very '- plus Dix was only permitted a mere 10% of the whole, Union at least, ' Civil War Nurses '. She'd have recruited battalions, given the choice. The rest pushed their way in- Sanitary Commission, Christian Commission, countless state civic groups, on the spot nurses of necessity like we see at Gettysburg and women who felt impelled by God himself to heal war's savagery- the Sisters.
Tough question, probably unanswerable?
My answer was nurse, too.
I have answered on a pure personal level. Maybe a female spy or a female soldier or a vivandiere was more essential to the war effort. But how much misery was made more endurable through the gentle hand of a nurse (and let's not forget, in the beginning, nurses were men!).
You simply cannot overrate nurses in my eyes. Never.
Mike, the exit polls say that this is not going to be a hotly contested election.Which woman was most valuable to the CSA/USA Army?
I wish I could like this response several dozen times.I couldn't vote, Mike, sorry! It isn't possible plus, some choices vital to the army are not on the ballet- civilian women, teachers, the ground swell of support from home- wives.
I mean, asking this question is a little like asking which finger you'd lop off and still have a hand function, you know?
Tough in comparisons, too. With so few Vivandier, how do we gauge value? But our most famous, Tepe, was so valuable by way of aid where she was ( not to an entire army ), we'll never know the lives saved. Our female soldiers? No more or less than the men; you'd have to calculate how valuable was each private to a company, company to regiment, regiment to.... like the King's horse and a careless blacksmith, every soldier was vital.
Famous examples but few spies in comparison to say, nurses. Valuable as events transpired, each was different, too. We do know Grant told Elizabeth Van Lew Richmond would not have been taken without her. I'm a little lopsided on the topic of Van Lew, her hugest fan because she scooped up JPK's brother, a Federal prisoner in Richmond, and took him home to nurse his Typhoid. Not very objective!
To witness from this distance, various unhelpful attitudes towards nurses, you'd think ' Not Very '- plus Dix was only permitted a mere 10% of the whole, Union at least, ' Civil War Nurses '. She'd have recruited battalions, given the choice. The rest pushed their way in- Sanitary Commission, Christian Commission, countless state civic groups, on the spot nurses of necessity like we see at Gettysburg and women who felt impelled by God himself to heal war's savagery- the Sisters.
Tough question, probably unanswerable?
I'd say if we're talking armies, the women who kept them in the field. Those would be the woman at home, who were writing regularly, willing them on, wishing for their safety and wanting for their victorious return. These women would include mothers, wives, sweethearts, sisters, daughters. They want their men home, but at the same time they want to encourage and inspire them where they are, so that they don't lose hope. If that had have been an option, I would have chosen these women.
good choice, sex therapy could fall under nursing I reckonIn the absence of prostitute, I picked nurse.
Wounded soldiers in Robertson Hospital would have voted nurse.
“The Robertson Hospital officially opened on August 1 in 1861. The government assigned six surgeons and supplied only food, medicine, and supplies to the hospital, with Tompkins covering the remaining expenses with her inheritance.
Tompkins was strict about cleanliness in her hospital, which resulted in a 94 percent survival rate among her patients. Of the 1,300 wounded soldiers sent to her hospital, only 73 died.”
http://civilwarsaga.com/captain-sally-louisa-tompkins-nurse-and-officer-in-the-confederate-army/
It seems I should have added a few more choices!Mike, the exit polls say that this is not going to be a hotly contested election.
Weel, I do agree with you.Given the choices, it's nurse....no contest. @Mike Serpa ...even if you had included wife and or the girl he left behind....the correct answer still would be NURSE
Due to the lack of my first choice, I picked that one as well!Given the choices, it's nurse....no contest. @Mike Serpa ...even if you had included wife and or the girl he left behind....the correct answer still would be NURSE
Sorry, but I have to give this a big LOL @JPK Huson 1863 . Thank you for holding the fort for us women - as per your whole post! Your my heroine on this site now Sorry, guys It's a 'smackdown'!the sigh is over women's value being sexual.