Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of Georgia Press is on civil war series. Her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the United States. Book derived from her dissertation provided family in the civil war. In 2005. Published that book is the topic of her program today. I present to you dr. Amy morel taylor. It is indeed a real pleasure to be back here in virginia,
But they had to deal with the fact that men did not want them there. The name of the book is worth a dozen men early in the war, the confederacy was disorganized. They did not create an overarching system until the end of 1862. There is a gap in medical care. That created this opportunity for these ambitious women to step in and establish their hospitals. Early in the war they were running hospitals. And there are volunteer efforts, thats because the confederacy hadnt organized anything at that point. When they create a medical system, because these early female run hospitals have posted such low mortality rights, much lower than general hospitals, there is a commission of legislators that studied this in these had mortality rates of about 5 is general hospitals had about 10 . They realize women were doing something positive. So they created a new position called matrix and they created matron positions for women and they were gendered and that women were supposed to be in charge of la
But they had to deal with the fact that men did not want them there. The name of the book is worth a dozen men early in the war, the confederacy was disorganized. They did not create an overarching system until the end of 1862. There is a gap in medical care. That created this opportunity for these ambitious women to step in and establish their hospitals. Early in the war they were running hospitals. And there are volunteer efforts, thats because the confederacy hadnt organized anything at that point. When they create a medical system, because these early female run hospitals have posted such low mortality rights, much lower than general hospitals, there is a commission of legislators that studied this in these had mortality rates of about 5 is general hospitals had about 10 . They realize women were doing something positive. So they created a new position called matrix and they created matron positions for women and they were gendered and that women were supposed to be in charge of la
But they had to deal with the fact that men did not want them there. The name of the book is worth a dozen men early in the war, the confederacy was disorganized. They did not create an overarching system until the end of 1862. There is a gap in medical care. That created this opportunity for these ambitious women to step in and establish their hospitals. Early in the war they were running hospitals. And there are volunteer efforts, thats because the confederacy hadnt organized anything at that point. When they create a medical system, because these early female run hospitals have posted such low mortality rights, much lower than general hospitals, there is a commission of legislators that studied this in these had mortality rates of about 5 is general hospitals had about 10 . They realize women were doing something positive. So they created a new position called matrix and they created matron positions for women and they were gendered and that women were supposed to be in charge of la
Lot of men didnt want them there. The name of the book is worth a dozen men. Early in the war the confederacy was very disorganized compared to the union. They did not create an overarching medical system until the end of 1862, so there was a gap of medical care in there. And that created this opportunity for incredibly wellorganized, really ambitious women to step in and create and found and establish their own hospitals. And so early in the war these women actually were running hospitals, right . And these were volunteer efforts. And that was because the confederacy hadnt really organized a medical system at that point to. After september of 1862 when the confederacy finally creates a medical system, they because these early femalerun hospitals had posted such low mortality rates, much lower than general hospitals, there was a commission of legislators that went out is and studied this, and these femalerun hospitals had mortality rates of about 5 whereas general hospitals had a morta