Along with providing nursing and medical support services during the war, the U.S. Sanitary Commission
a. helped many women acquire organizational skills and self-confidence that they would use in the postwar women´s rights movement.
b. helped garner public respect for the medical profession.
c. provided medical training to a large number of African Americans.
d. enabled many women to serve as spies while nursing.
e. made major breakthroughs in germ theory and the prevention of deaths due to infection.
a
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