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Collection Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers

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  • Attie, Jeanie. Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Baker, Nina Brown. Cyclone in Calico: The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952. LC catalog record.
  • Bickerdyke, Mary Ann. Mary Ann Bickerdyke Miscellany, 1879, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, San Francisco, Calif. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Brockett, L. P., and Mary C. Vaughan. Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience. Philadelphia: Zeigler, McCurdy, 1867. LC catalog record.
  • Brockett, L. P., and Mary C. Vaughan. Women at War: A Record of Their Patriotic Contributions, Heroism, Toils, and Sacrifice during the Civil War. Woodbury, N.Y.: Longmeadow, 1993. LC catalog record.
  • Burton, Margaret Davis. The Woman Who Battled for the Boys in Blue. Mother Bickerdyke; Her Life and Labors for the Relief of Our Soldiers. Sketches of Battle Scenes and Incidents of the Sanitary Service. San Francisco, Calif.: A. T. Dewey, 1886. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Chase, Julia A. Mary A. Bickerdyke, "Mother." The Life Story of One Who, as Wife, Mother, Army Nurse, Pension Agent and City Missionary, Has Touched the Heights and Depths of Human Life. Lawrence, Kan.: Journal Publishing House, 1896. LC catalog record.
  • Chase, Julia A. "Mother Bickerdyke." Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 7 (1902): 189-198. LC catalog record.
  • Cordeau, Mary Ann Urban. "Acts of Caring: A History of the Lived Experience of Nurse-Caring by Northern Women during the American Civil War." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2004.
  • Cox, Thomas C. Everything but the Fenceposts: The Great Plains Grasshopper Plague of 1874-1877. Los Angeles, Calif: Figueroa Press, 2010. LC catalog record.
  • Cox, Thomas C. “The Grasshopper Plague, 1874–1878, and Social Welfare: The Postbellum Prospects for Relief, Recovery, and Reform.” The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sectional Conflict, the Civil War, and the Long Reconstruction. Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, Jerald Podair, and Jennifer L. Weber. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.  LC catalog record.
  • Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer. Trials and Triumphs: Women of the American Civil War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1991. LC catalog record.
  • Erlandson, E. V. "The Story of Mother Bickerdyke." The American Journal of Nursing 20, no. 8 (1920): 628-631. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. 
  • Giesberg, Judith Ann. Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. LC catalog record. 
  • Greenbie, Marjorie Barstow. Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1944. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Hanson, Kathleen S. "Down to Vicksburg: The Nurses' Experience." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 97, no. 4 (2004): 286-309. LC catalog record.
  • Henshaw, Sarah Edwards. Our Branch and Its Tributaries; Being a History of the Work of the Northwestern Sanitary Commission and Its Auxilliaries, During the War of the Rebellion. Chicago: A. L. Sewell, 1868. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. 
  • Hilde, Libra Rose. "Worth a Dozen Men: Women, Nursing, and Medical Care during the American Civil War." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2003.
  • Holland, Mary A. Gardner, comp. Our Army Nurses. Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in Hospitals and on Battlefields During Our Civil War. Boston: B. Wilkins & Co., 1895. LC catalog record. Reprint, Roseville, Minn.: Edinborough Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Humphreys, Margaret. Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. LC catalog record.
  • Kahler, Bruce R. "Mary Ann ‘Mother’ Bickerdyke: A Gilded Age Icon." John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History. Edited by Virgil W. Dean. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. LC catalog record.
  • Kellogg, Florence Shaw. Mother Bickerdyke As I Knew Her. Chicago: Unity Publishing Company, 1907. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Knapp, Frederick Newman. Frederick N. Knapp collection, 1862-1886. (MS 0209) Historical Society of Washington, D.C.  Collection described online External.
  • LaPointe, Patricia M. “Military Hospitals in Memphis, 1861-1865.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 42, no. 4 (Winter 1983): 325-342. LC catalog record.
  • Leonard, Elizabeth D. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. LC catalog record.
  • Litvin, Martin. The Young Mary, 1817-1861: Early Years of Mother Bickerdyke, America's Florence Nightingale, and Patron Saint of Kansas. Galesburg, Ill: Log City Books, 1977. WorldCat catalog record.
  • Livermore, Mary A. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front during the War of the Rebellion. With Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War. Hartford, Conn.: A.D. Worthington and Company, [1887] 1888. LC catalog record. Reprint, 1889. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1972. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Long, Lisa A. Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. LC catalog record.
  • Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Bonnet Brigades. New York: Knopf, 1966. LC catalog record. Reprinted as Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. LC catalog record.
  • Maxwell, William Quentin. Lincoln's Fifth Wheel: The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission. New York: Longmans, Green, 1956. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Moore, Frank. Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-sacrifice: True Stories of Brave Women in the Civil War. Hartford, Conn.: S. S. Scranton, 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.  Reprint, 1868. LC catalog record. Reprint, Alexander, N.C.: Blue Gray Books, 1997. LC catalog record.
  • “Mother Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, c1898.” Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online through Prints & Photograph Online Catalog.
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law. Defending the Union: The Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1863. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. LC catalog record.
  • Osborne, Karen K. Mother Bickerdyke, Civil War Mother to the Boys. Milwaukee: Blue & Grey Chap Books, 1990. LC catalog record.
  • Ross, Kristie R. “‘Women are Needed Here’: Northern Protestant Women as Nurses during the Civil War, 1861-1865.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1993.
  • Schultz, Jane E. “The Inhospitable Hospital: Gender and Professionalism in Civil War Medicine.” Signs 17, no. 2 (1992): 363-392. LC catalog record.
  • Schultz, Jane E. “Race, Gender, and Bureaucracy: Civil War Army Nurses and the Pension Bureau.” Journal of Women's History 6, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 45-69. LC catalog record.
  • Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. LC catalog record.
  • Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Smith, Nina Bennett. “The Women Who Went to the War: The Union Army Nurse in the Civil War.” Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1981.
  • Stillé, Charles J. History of the United States Sanitary Commission, being the General Report of Its Work during the War of the Rebellion. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.  
  • United States Sanitary Commission Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. Finding aid online.
  • United States Sanitary Commission Records. Microform. 28 reels. Filmed from originals held at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, New York Public Library. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996. LC catalog record.
  • United States Sanitary Commission. Western Department. The U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi, During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866.  Final Report of Dr. J. S. Newberry, Secretary. Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1871. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Venet, Wendy Hamand. “The Emergence of a Suffragist: Mary Livermore, Civil War Activism, and the Moral Power of Women.” Civil War History 48, no. 2 (June 2002): 143-164. LC catalog record.
  • Wittenmyer, Annie. Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the Civil War. Boston: E. B. Stillings & Co., 1895. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Wood, Ann Douglas. “The War within a War: Women Nurses in the Union Army.” Civil War History 18, no. 3 (September 1972): 197-212. LC catalog record.