Civil War Nurse

Civil War Nurse

Author: Hannah Anderson Ropes

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780870497902

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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 Her heretofore unpublished diary and letters comprise a fresh, hightly significan document concerning the medical history of the Civil War and the contributions of women nurses in the Northern military hospitals. This book is edited, with Introduction and Commentary, by John R. Brumgardt. Published by The University of Tennessee. 150 pages


A Confederate Nurse

A Confederate Nurse

Author: Ada White Bacot

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781570033865

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The Civil War was the first major American conflict in which women nurses played a significant role. This diary records the daily experiences, hardships and joys of a Southern plantation owner and widow whose patriotism prompted her to care for confederate wounded.


Kate

Kate

Author: Kate Cumming

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1998-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 080712267X

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Scottish-born, Alabama-bred Kate Cumming was one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South’s wounded soldiers. Her detailed journal, first published in 1866, provides a riveting look behind the lines of Civil War action in depicting civilian attitudes, army medical practices, and the administrative workings of the Confederate hospital system.


Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870

Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870

Author: Daneen Wardrop

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2015-10

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1609383672

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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: women's rights, benevolence, and class -- Elvira Powers' hospital pencillings: travel, dissent, and cultural ties -- Anna Morris Holstein's three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac: the dead-line -- Sophronia Bucklin's in hospital and camp: rank and file nursing -- Julia Wheelock's the boys in white: narrative construction


Letters of a Civil War Nurse

Letters of a Civil War Nurse

Author: Cornelia Hancock

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1496203763

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She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America." From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the suffering of soldiers. She was one of the great heroines of the Union. Cornelia Hancock served in field and evacuating hospitals, in a contraband camp, and (defying authority) on the battlefield. Her letters to family members are witty, unsentimental, and full of indignation about the neglect of wounded soldiers and black refugees. Hancock was fiercely devoted to the welfare of the privates who had "nothing before them but hard marching, poor fare, and terrible fighting."


Worth a Dozen Men

Worth a Dozen Men

Author: Libra Rose Hilde

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0813932122

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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.


Gentle Annie

Gentle Annie

Author: Mary Francis Shura

Publisher: Apple

Published: 1994-03-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780590435000

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A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac.


Faces of the Civil War

Faces of the Civil War

Author: Ronald S Coddington

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1421410397

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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 War, many Union and Confederate soldiers posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, fueling intense demand for the keepsakes. Many cards of Civil War soldiers survive today, but the experiences?and often the names?of the individuals portrayed have been lost to time. A passionate collector of Civil War–era photography, Ron Coddington researched the history behind these anonymous faces in military records, pension files, and other public and personal documents. In Faces of the Civil War, Coddington presents 77 cartes de visite of Union soldiers from his collection and tells the stories of their lives during and after the war. These soldiers came from all walks of life. All were volunteers. Their personal stories reveal a tremendous diversity in their experience of war: many served with distinction, some were captured, some never saw combat while others saw little else. The lives of survivors were even more disparate. While some made successful transitions back to civilian life, others suffered permanent physical and mental disabilities, which too often wrecked their families and careers. In compelling words and haunting pictures, Faces of the Civil War offers a unique perspective on the most dramatic and wrenching period in American history.