Their Kind Nature
Female nurses were also valued highly by the wounded soldiers they served because of their kind ways, which had resulted from their ladylike upbringing unlike men who were more rough and abrupt
- The females nurses tended to also look after the spiritual and emotional needs of the patients
- They sang to their patients, made conversation with them, and decorated their wards
- These women really took on the roles of the mothers, wives, and daughters that these men probably had not seen for months
- Mary Ann Bickerdyke was a well-known Union nurse who, when she witnessed what was going on in the battlefield hospitals, did everything she could to help
Richard Yates once stated about Bickerdyke, "She bound up the wounds of the afflicted and when she did so she administered a soothing balm to the lacerated hearts at home"