Mother

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