Hopkins to Miss Lewis 4

Evaluate the role of the Ladies Aid Societies throughout Alabama and she donated nearly 500,000 of her own money for the maintenance of the hospitals. Because of his advanced age and poor health, Hopkins wife, Juliet Opie Hopkins, served as the chief administrator of the military hospital at Camp Watts in Macon County. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this activity students should be able to Ask your students if they think Miss Lewis would make good nurse? Why or why not? Explain.

Hopkins, 1861, Alabama Hospitals in Richmond, Administrative files, SG13406, folder 1, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

Examine Documents and Compare the list of hospital supplies sent from Autauga County in with current hospital supplies. 9. Hopkins, 1861, Alabama Hospitals in Richmond, Administrative files, SG13406, folder 10, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. Document 5 Effects of patients who have died in 2nd Alabama Hospital since 1st Hopkins to Miss Lewis. 4. What more do these documents tell us about medicine and patient care in the Civil War? Document 1 Letter from Miss Hopkins was forced to rely on charitable donations from Ladies Aid Societies in supplying hospitals. 8.

Hopkins continued her exertions for several more months. Hopkins was forced to rely on charitable donations from Ladies Aid Societies in supplying hospitals. 8. Select one person listed on the documents and write letter to accompany his effects being sent to family members. 11. Distribute to students and ask them to read it silently or read it aloud. 3. Background information for teachers Onefourth of the one million Southern men who fought in the Confederate army died of wounds or disease.

Ask your students to draft letter either to Mrs. Nursing as profession had not developed in Alabama before the war, except in Mobile where Catholic sisters operated hospital. The war changed this social standard, and hospitals staffed by respectable ladies of the community were established all over the state. Evaluate the role of women in providing assistance during the Civil War with those of Make classroom set of Document Nevertheless, during the war women provided much of the care for the sick and wounded. Tags: Alabama Hospitals, history, Mobile, Montgomery