Here's a short biography of Mary (Conger) Brainad as part of a series that focuses on female heroines of the Civil War:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Congressional_Record/rh5YFrEr34YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mary+brainad+conger&pg=PA11976&printsec=frontcover
Others include:
Aunt Leslie Aiken
Louisa May Alcott
Clara Barton
Mother Bickerdyke
America Carter
Dorothea Dix
Mother Ellsworth
Annie Etheridge
Lucretia Garfield (wife of Pres. James Garfield)
Helen Louise Garfield
Julia Dent Grant (wife of Pres. U.S. Grant)
Lucy Wenn Hayes (wife of Pres. Rutherford Hayes)
Susan A. Harding
Nancy Keturah Hoover
Julia Ward Howe
Mary C. Keeble
Elizabeth Kipp
Susan Lemmon
Mary Todd Lincoln (wife of Pres. Abraham Lincoln)
Mary Cunningham Logan
Ida McKinley (wife of Pres. William McKinley)
Eliza Porter
Carrie Reed
Alice Carey Risley
Ella Ewing Sherman (wife of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman)
Mary Harris Thompson
Mary Winegardner
Aunt Becky Young
Mary M. Daskan
Marilla Plums
Quite a list of women with wonderful accomplishments.