Women in military

By trisan1993

  • American Revolution (1775-1783)

    American Revolution (1775-1783)
    Women serve on the battlefield as nurses, water bearers, cooks, laundresses and saboteurs.

  • War of 1812

    War of 1812
    Mary Marshall and Mary Allen nurse aboard Commodore Stephen Decatur's ship United States.

  • Mexican War (1846-1848)

    Mexican War (1846-1848)
    Elizabeth Newcom enlists in Company D of the Missouri Volunteer Infantry as Bill Newcom. She marches 600 miles from Missouri to winter camp at Pueblo, Colorado, before she is discovered to be a woman and discharged.

  • Civil War Begin

    Civil War Begin
    The American Civil War (1861–1865), also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states. Union states were loosely referred to as "the North".

  • Civil War (1861-1865)

    Civil War (1861-1865)
    Women provide casualty care and nursing to Union and Confederate troops at field hospitals and on the Union Hospital Ship Red Rover. Women soldiers on both sides disguise themselves as men in order to serve. In 1866, Dr. Mary Walker receives the Medal of Honor. She is the only woman to receive the nation's highest military honor.

  • Civil war ended

    Civil war ended
    Finally, on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army.

  • Spanish-American War (1898)

    Spanish-American War (1898)
    Thousands of US soldiers sick with typhoid, malaria and yellow fever, overwhelm the capabilities of the Army Medical Department. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee suggests to the Army Surgeon General that the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) be appointed to select professionally qualified nurses to serve under contract to the US Army.

  • Army nurse 1901

    Army nurse 1901
    Army Nurse Corps is established.

  • Navy nurse 1908

    Navy nurse 1908
    Navy Nurse Corps is established.

  • World War I (1917-1918)

    World War I (1917-1918)
    During the course of the war, 21,480 Army nurses serve in military hospitals in the United States and overseas. Eighteen African-American Army nurses serve stateside caring for German prisoners of war (POWs) and African-American soldiers