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Virginia Time Travel interviews Andrea Loewenwater from
Historic Blenheim in Fairfax, Virginia.
A brief look at the
impact of war on civilians living around Manassas based on first person
narratives and family histories.
A quick look at women doctors and medicine in the
Civil War for the general reader. Technologically, the American Civil War was
the first “modern” war, but medically it still had its roots in the Middle
Ages. In both the North and the South, thousands of women served as nurses to
help wounded and suffering soldiers and civilians. A few women served as
doctors, a remarkable feat in an era when sex discrimination prevented women
from pursuing medical education, and those few who did were often obstructed by
their male colleagues at every turn.
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