Bette Horstman was a medical officer on Saipan during World War II. Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's sweep ...

The Mother Bickerdyke Memorial in Galesburg, Ill., represents Mary Bickerdyke holding a cup of water for a wounded soldier. This may be the only Civil War memorial dedicated to a woman by sculptor ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In honor of Women’s History Month, local historical society chapters paid tribute to Civil War nurse and Fort Wayne native Helena Wolff at Lindenwood Cemetery on Saturday.

As the U.S. waged its war in Vietnam, the CIA crossed into Laos, where it quietly trained some 35,000 Hmong soldiers to fight ...

MIDWAY, Ga., (WSAV) – For some, the search for knowledge leads to unlikely places. “I came here on this quest looking for something. But what I came looking for was looking for me, too.” That is the ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) _ At the time of her death in Ottawa on May 20, 1897, Sarah Gregg, 86, was revered as a remarkable woman for her service during the Civil War as a Union army nurse.

Dorothea Dix goes to war -- The army is unprepared -- Volunteers -- Nurses on the hospital transport ships -- Arriving at Mansion House Hospital -- Learning by experience -- Becoming indispensable -- ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In honor of ...