{"id":846,"date":"2016-07-29T21:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=846"},"modified":"2019-07-13T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T19:40:46","slug":"civil-war-nurses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/civil-war-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Nurses Illustration, 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_841\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-841\" class=\"wp-image-841 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261-1000x680.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Nast, \u201cOur Heroines, United States Sanitary Commission,\u201d in Harper\u2019s Weekly, April 9, 1864, via Cushing\/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261-1000x680.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261-250x170.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261-500x340.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/print10261-624x424.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Nast, \u201cOur Heroines, United States Sanitary Commission,\u201d in Harper\u2019s Weekly, April 9, 1864, via <a href=\"http:\/\/whitney.med.yale.edu\/gsdl\/cgi-bin\/library?c=prntdraw&amp;a=d&amp;d=DprntdrawprintBACGB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cushing\/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Civil War ultimately opened a variety of arenas for Union and Confederate women\u2019s participation. &nbsp;In the North, the United States Sanitary Commission in particular centralized women\u2019s opportunities to volunteer as nurses, donate supplies, and to raise funds at Sanitary Fairs. &nbsp;This 1864 image from popular periodical Harper\u2019s Weekly celebrates women\u2019s contributions on the battlefield, in the hospital, in the parlor, and at the fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil War ultimately opened a variety of arenas for Union and Confederate women\u2019s participation. &nbsp;In the North, the United States Sanitary Commission in particular centralized women\u2019s opportunities to volunteer as nurses, donate supplies, and to raise funds at Sanitary Fairs. &nbsp;This 1864 image from popular periodical Harper\u2019s Weekly celebrates women\u2019s contributions on the battlefield, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-846","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}