JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
This is very cool. I'll have some threads on individuals- have been lax on all our nurses but this thread is the result of a few things. First- would like to begin correcting the overall impression our ' contraband ', fellow citizens were comprehensively some frightened, fleeing, helpless, hopeless mass. Did most require assistance in the same way refugees feeling persecution or heck, a wildfire consuming everything they owned would? Sure. If they got it, would have been welcome.
' Contraband' must have been at least less annoying than ' slave' although now our fellow citizens were legalities of war. Butler became enraged at endless piddling, the South's insistence on designating humans as actual property so gave the South language it could understand.
Photographers recorded images for some reason picked over by future generations of the comprehensive conditions our fellow citizens found themselves in as a result of being disallowed human-ship. Some heckish. Have yet to see a cowed expression. Every image claimed as proof represents untold numbers with the same story and there's an awful lot of this- people shedding centuries of enforced educational privation and launching themselves into the nearest, deepest, densest ocean where skills and untapped gifts could finally be acknowledged and rewarded. Gosh. Sounds like Life.
Nurses serving with the 13th Massachusetts, men and women would serve in medical capacities. I'm not saying all the adults in this photo were nurses, some were there is not way of ascertaining how many.
We continually hear people described as ' laborers' only. Just fine as an occupation if that were true but it's not.
A hospital in Nashville, black nurses getting a rare breath of fresh air.
Snipped from a photo ( LoC ) from the Sanitary Commission, DC
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/nursing.html
" Ann Stokes was first taken aboard a Union Naval vessel as "contraband" in 1863. As was typical of most former slaves, Stokes could not read or write, but was hired as a nurse. She worked under the direction of the Sisters of the Holy Cross nuns aboard the U.S.S. Red Rover, the first Union Naval hospital ship. Stokes became the first African American woman to serve on board a U.S. military vessel and was among the first women to serve as nurses in the Navy. " and
"Susie King Taylor's memoirs are the only known published recollection of the experiences of an African American nurse during the Civil War. "
From the website, with apologies for the word ' slave'. Never use it unless I flake- in 2015 it seems archaic because I know better. Nobody yell at me, am not witching at anyone who does, it's between me and my own head.
' Contraband' must have been at least less annoying than ' slave' although now our fellow citizens were legalities of war. Butler became enraged at endless piddling, the South's insistence on designating humans as actual property so gave the South language it could understand.
Photographers recorded images for some reason picked over by future generations of the comprehensive conditions our fellow citizens found themselves in as a result of being disallowed human-ship. Some heckish. Have yet to see a cowed expression. Every image claimed as proof represents untold numbers with the same story and there's an awful lot of this- people shedding centuries of enforced educational privation and launching themselves into the nearest, deepest, densest ocean where skills and untapped gifts could finally be acknowledged and rewarded. Gosh. Sounds like Life.
Nurses serving with the 13th Massachusetts, men and women would serve in medical capacities. I'm not saying all the adults in this photo were nurses, some were there is not way of ascertaining how many.
We continually hear people described as ' laborers' only. Just fine as an occupation if that were true but it's not.
A hospital in Nashville, black nurses getting a rare breath of fresh air.
Snipped from a photo ( LoC ) from the Sanitary Commission, DC
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/nursing.html
" Ann Stokes was first taken aboard a Union Naval vessel as "contraband" in 1863. As was typical of most former slaves, Stokes could not read or write, but was hired as a nurse. She worked under the direction of the Sisters of the Holy Cross nuns aboard the U.S.S. Red Rover, the first Union Naval hospital ship. Stokes became the first African American woman to serve on board a U.S. military vessel and was among the first women to serve as nurses in the Navy. " and
"Susie King Taylor's memoirs are the only known published recollection of the experiences of an African American nurse during the Civil War. "
From the website, with apologies for the word ' slave'. Never use it unless I flake- in 2015 it seems archaic because I know better. Nobody yell at me, am not witching at anyone who does, it's between me and my own head.