Caroline Janney
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206 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
Caroline Janney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Susie King Taylor is a young enslaved woman.
She's in her teens when she makes her way to Union lines and becomes a laundress and a nurse.
And she's teaching Black soldiers in South Carolina to read.
White women on both sides are absolutely involved as well.
Women made up more than 50% of the population in 1860, and so their contributions to the war effort span, you know, as many different women as there were, there were different ways in which they contributed.
One of the first things that happens in the summer of 1861 is across the Loyal North, women's organizations begin getting together and putting together what we might call care packages for their soldiers in the field of packing jams and jellies and socks and undergarments to send to the front.
And I like to describe this as benevolent chaos.
They're sending so much stuff that food is going bad.
And there are descriptions of jars of jelly that are breaking and ruining all the newly darned socks that they had sent.
They're working in ammunition factories.
They are working for the federal government as treasury clerks.
Women are volunteering as nurses and getting paid as nurses for the first time.
This is a watershed event.
Before the Civil War, it was not proper for a middle-class, upper-class woman to touch
or to see the body of a man who wasn't her husband or family member.
And so the notion of women in hospitals is quite dramatic.
Nursing becomes something that women do during the Civil War, taking their cue from Florence Nightingale.
In the Confederacy, you have many of the same things without the same level of organization, but you also have women that are nursing on ad hoc basis.
If they are in a community where there has been a recent battle, their homes are being used or they're rushing to volunteer and the local church might be used as a hospital.
He's going to travel with the main army that is in the east, with the Army of the Potomac.
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