Everyone knows the battles of the Civil War, with their generals and their soldiers.
Now, her astounding history has been captured for the modern reader in Mother: The Life of Mary Bickerdyke..
As Mary Livermore once wrote, the good woman lived a grand, good life, packed with noble deeds wrought for others.
She loved her country and its people, and gave up a Life of ease to care for others.
Mary helped soldiers and generals, paupers and farmers, orphans and amputees.
She is most often recognized for her work during the American Civil War, but her loving toil occurred throughout her long life.
Mary travelled the width and breadth of America, working in hospitals, asylums, prisons, missions, houses of the poor...and at many a battlefield.
Mother: The Life of Mary Bickerdyke is the story of a woman who revolutionized the healing process.
But few people living today know the story of Mary Mother Bickerdyke, a hero in her time.
Everyone knows the battles of the Civil War, with their generals and their soldiers
