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A School of Strength and Character

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Ten days after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, a group of 3000 women gathered at the Cooper Institute in New York City. They met to save the Union. Chairing the meeting was Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn an M.D. in American history. Blackwell knew that her nation’s medical infrastructure was not prepared to deal with the tide of blood and illness the war would unleash. The convention brought together representatives from various relief associations across Yankeedom to coordinate their efforts in the war to come. To meet the anticipated needs of the Union armies, the women gathered in New York decided to create an organization—the Women’s Central Association for Relief—that would raise funds for the medical care of the wounded and train as many women nurses as possible. Eventually, the fast-growing organization would rebrand as the United States Sanitary Commission and bring in influential male doctors as national officers. Thousands of Sanitary women mobilized

Brian Mann/Silhouette of person looking towards sunset Ten days after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, a group of 3,000 women gathered at the Cooper Institute in New York City. They met to save the Union. Chairing the meeting was Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in American history to earn an M.D. Blackwell knew that her nation’s medical infrastructure was not prepared to deal with the tide of blood and illness the war would unleash. The convention brought together representatives from various relief associations across Yankeedom to coordinate their efforts in the war to come. To

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