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After the American Civil War, Clara Barton led the search for over 40,000 missing soldiers ... including some who didn't want to be found.

Schoolteacher Clara Jones engaged in full time hospital work in the summer of 1862.

Frederick Law Olmsted's memoir "Hospital Transports" describes the efforts of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862.

“If I know I can be of service in tending the wounded…I’m bound to be on hand.”

Thousands of Confederate refugees fled war zones to the relative safety of the Southern interior.

The outbreak of war triggered an immediate response among Union civilians thinking about how best to supply and support the armies from the home front.

On September 14, 1862, a Confederate bullet sliced through the arm of Lt. Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes during the Battle of South Mountain.

“The bandaged head, the empty sleeve, and the stump of a leg, told a tale louder than words could speak”

Just as Whedon challenged society’s preconceived notion of the girl in a horror movie, we challenge you to second-guess what you think of women in the past.