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Civil War Nurse
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Hannah Anderson Ropes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

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The chief nurse of the Union Hospital in Washington, D.C., describes life and stress in the hospital and comments on notable persons of power. Her heretofore un
Worth a Dozen Men
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Libra Rose Hilde
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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This book examines the role female nurses in the South played during the Civil War in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates.
Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Daneen Wardrop
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Louisa May Alcott's hospital sketches: a readership -- Georgeanna Woolsey's three weeks at Gettysburg: connecting links -- Julia Dunlap's notes of hospital life
Faces of the Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Ronald S Coddington
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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Archival images and biographical sketches of Union soldiers tell the stories of their lives during and after the Civil War. Before leaving to fight in the Civil
Women at the Front
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Jane E. Schultz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women