Dorothea instead began to teach and wrote many books. ... Through reviewing scholarly literature related to Dix, as well as impressions of her as recorded by several female diarists during the Civil War, one might conclude that she was either a truly strict, abrasive person, or that she was merely pushing as hard as she thought necessary to enlarge the scope of "acceptable" duties to be handled by nurses during the War and in the future. ... In 1865, she conceived the project of locating missing soldiers and obtained a note of endorsement from President Lincoln. ...

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