Women such as Dorothea Dix, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, and Clara Barton

a. advanced the professionalization of nursing during the Civil War.
b. gained the respect and admiration of the male-dominated medical profession for their work as nurses duringthe course of the Civil War

c. received official recognition from President Lincoln for their service to the Union cause.
d. pioneered the way for the acceptance of women as physicians by being among the first of their gender toattend medical school.


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