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Luella May

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THIRTIETH EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
5/28/2007 8:43:12 AM

John Elliott and Luella May Welcome You to the Thirtieth Edition of

Women of Courage

Each week we will honor a woman that has truly made a difference by her contributions, courage, love, and selflessness. Women honored will be chosen from inside AdlandPro, outside AdlandPro, living in the present, and yes, we will not forget those heroines that paved the way for the freedoms we now enjoy.   We will honor women who have shown tremendous courage and fortitude against all odds.

Assisting us in coordinating these awards are four outstanding ladies who are Women of Courage in their own right.

Presenting:

Carla Cash
http://community.adlandpro.com/go/245569/default.aspx

Veronica Davidson
http://community.adlandpro.com/go/vdavidson1972/default.aspx 

Joyce Hyde
http://community.adlandpro.com/go/031849/default.aspx

Pauline Raina           http://community.adlandpro.com/go/301079/default.aspx

Aparna Ganguli         http://community.adlandpro.com/go/blukiwi/default.aspx

Geketa Holman        http://community.adlandpro.com/go/313726/default.aspx

Our Sweethearts of Courage

Shirley Caron http://community.adlandpro.com/go/scaronpoet2005/default.aspx

Michael Caron        http://community.adlandpro.com/go/192260/default.aspx

And Adlands very own man of Courage

John Partington http://community.adlandpro.com/go/114695/default.aspx

Mary Ann Bickerdyke

July 19, 1817-November 8, 1901

Mary Ann Bickerdyke, also known as Mother Bickerdyke, was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War.

She was born in Knox County, Ohio, to Hiram Ball and Annie Rodgers Ball. She later moved to Galesburg, Illinois.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, she joined a field hospital at Fort Donelson, and worked on the first hospital boat. During the War she became chief of nursing under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant, and served at the Battle of Vicksburg. When his staff complained about the outspoken, insubordinate female nurse who consistently disregarded the army's red tape and military procedures, Union Gen. William T. Sherman threw up his hands and exclaimed, "She outranks me. I can't do a thing in the world." Bickerdyke was a nurse who ran roughshod over anyone who stood in the way of her self-appointed duties. She was known affectionately to her "boys", the grateful enlisted men, as "Mother" Bickerdyke. When a surgeon questioned her authority to take some action, she replied, "On the authority of Lord God Almighty, have you anything that outranks that?"

Mother Bickerdyke became the best known, most colorful, and probably most resourceful Civil War nurse. Widowed two years before the war began, she supported herself and her two half-grown sons by practicing as a "botanic Physician" in Galesburg, Illinois. When a young Union volunteer physician wrote home about the filthy, chaotic military hospitals at Cairo, Illinois, Galesburg's citizens collected $500 worth of supplies and selected Bickerdyke to deliver them.

She stayed in Cairo as an unofficial nurse, and through her unbridled energy and dedication she organized the hospitals and gained Grant's appreciation. Grant sanctioned her efforts, and when his army moved down the Mississippi, Bickerdyke went too, setting up hospitals where they were needed. Sherman was especially fond of this volunteer nurse who followed the western armies, and supposedly she was the only woman he would allow in his camp. By the end of the war, with the help of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Mother Bickerdyke had built 300 hospitals and aided the wounded on 19 battlefields.

Fascinating Fact: "Mother" Bickerdyke was so loved by the army that the soldiers would cheer her as they would a general when she appeared. At Sherman's request, she rode at the head of the XV Corps in the Grand Review in Washington at the end of the war.

After the war ended, she worked for the Salvation Army in San Francisco, and became an attorney, helping Union veterans with legal issues. She received a special pension from Congress in 1886, and retired to Bunker Hill, Kansas

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Sharon Lee

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Re: THIRTIETH EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
5/28/2007 9:39:57 AM

Thank you Luella and John for another amazing bit of History. I have never heard of May Ann Bickerdyke before today and I loved reading about her.

A Very appropriate honor for this Memorial weekend...;-)

Peace, Sharon

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John Partington

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Re: THIRTIETH EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
5/28/2007 10:48:58 AM

Hi Team,

I have now done a link to this forum for Mary Ann you can find the link here http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/684214.aspx

Best Wishes

John.

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Re: THIRTIETH EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
5/28/2007 11:10:19 AM

HELLO ALL:

I'm here in Virginia on business and after checking my email, noticed your invitation.

What an excellent read. This forum you offer is so very special and should be read by our young women to inspire them to be all that they can be in life.

Again, thank you.

Always in friendship,

Joe Buccheri

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Thomas Richmond

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Re: THIRTIETH EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
5/28/2007 11:11:15 AM

Thank you Luella, John. And to JP for leading me here. Yes i remember this once very encouraging and very famious nurse as my brother Mark and I are both cival war historians , well mostly my brother is, Lol. But I would have Mother Bickerdyke take care of this wounded guy! She was very brave person. Thank you again for your recogntion on Mary ann. Love her comebacks, dont you? lol.

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