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Her life has been wonderfully fictionalized on the reach PBS Television series, Mercy Streets. Here's Mary Phinney's real life in her own words, long valued by historians as a source about Civil Conflict medicine.American Mary Phinney was before her time. A rebel against the restrictions put on women of her day, the miserable loss of life of her husband, the Barron von Olnhausen, became the real beginning of her life.Upon the outbreak of the American Civil Conflict, this remarkable woman enlisted herself in the care of tired and wounded troops. Working with Dorothea Dix and other significant women of the Civil Conflict, she tirelessly performed to increase the sanitary conditions, medical care, and morale of shattered young men.Hardly going for a breath from her exhausting years in the Civil Conflict, she went to Europe in 1870 to provide the same services in the Franco-Prussian Conflict. Her encounters as related through her own writing is the story of 1 of the fantastic women of the 19th hundred years.Mary Phinney von Olnhausen early on found her joy in living, in anguish, in encountering hardships with regard to others. She was too individual to be a saint, of too extreme a vitality to be completely well balanced; but she was the particular world most needs, - an unflagging, unselfish, positive moral force.
