Dorothea Dix, American Social Reformer

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous lobbying of state legislatures and the US Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses by the Union Army. Her even-handed caring for Union and Confederate wounded alike, which may not have endeared her to Radical Republicans, assured her memory in the South. Following the war, she resumed her crusade to improve the care of prisoners, the disabled, and the mentally ill

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