Livermore indeed became an effective leader in the women’s rights movement after the war, and her experience was duplicated by others who had their confidence emboldened, their eyes opened, and their outrage stirred by their work during the war. Louisa Schuyler, a great-granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, who became one of a dozen women managers in the Sanitary Commission’s New York branch, called the commission “a great educator of women of the day,”
