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Review Of Ada W. Bacot's Trained From The Start: A Confederate Nurse

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Olivia Moyer VA & US History Warren November 1 2017 Trained From the Start A Confederate Nurse, The Diary of Ada W. Bacot records almost all of her life from 1860-1873. During this period of her life, she drastically jumped from living the simple life as the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner to serving as a nurse for the Confederate States of America. Ada Bacot's diary entries give readers today an idea of what the ideal woman was expected to act like during the time of the American Civil War. In many sections of the book, locations vary between Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The reason her diary was published, or the thesis, was to show that while women did play a role in the American Civil War, the duties of women were greatly limited due to societal expectations and gender bias. …show more content…

For example, when one of her father's business companions comes to the house, she retires to her room. When a disagreement occurs between her and her sister-in-law, she merely treads back off to her room to cry because her father and brother took her sister-in-law's side over her own. Ada doesn't even dream of becoming a nurse and traveling to Virginia unless the men approve of her doing it. At the start of Ada serving as a nurse, she was only an errand boy of sorts. She cooked for the soldiers, performed duties of a housekeeper, made sure soldiers were comfortable, and did favors for important men. "When I had finished washing his face and combing his hair, he thanked me so politely that I felt I had really conferred a favour (70)." Ada was not performing nursing duties, and yes, while she traveled to Virginia to help soldiers, she was doing personal favors instead of administering medications or dressing wounds. Ada followed every command her superiors ordered of her, no matter how unusual the

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