I have stumbled onto a series of articles put out by The National Museum of Civil War Medicine that might be of interest (I apologize ahead of time if any of this information is redundant):
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Dix sprang into action. She made her way to Washington, where an influx of wounded soldiers with gruesome injuries arrived daily. Unlike today, there was no organized system of battlefield-to-bedside care in...
Dorothea Dix: Fierce, stubborn, compassionate, driven