Civil War nurse narratives, 1863-1870 / Daneen Wardrop ; design by April Leidig.
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- ISBN: 9781609383688 (e-book)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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's 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 S. Wheelock's The Boys in White: narrative construction. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870
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Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
The US Civil War divided the nation yet opened doors for women occupationally. Thousands of women in the North nursed sick and injured soldiers in hospitals and on the battlefront, in so doing stepping outside their socially mandated position of tending sick family members at home. The women served in hospitals from Washington, DC, to Gettysburg to Philadelphia and in camp hospitals bordering battle lines at the front. In all, more than 20,000 women served soldier-patients--among those women, Roman Catholic nuns, freed black women living in Northern camps, and family members and friends who traveled to tend their wounded loved ones. Wardrop (English, Western Michigan Univ.) examines the narratives of nine Northern female nurses, including the well-known Louisa May Alcott and several less-famous figures such as Julia Dunlop and Anna Morris Holstein. Detailing daily demands during the bloody war that nearly tore the US apart, these autobiographical narratives reveal three mid-19th-century concerns: women's rights, interracial interactions, and the development of a national character. Wardrop does an excellent job of drawing critical information about the war, women's issues, and the period in general from these narratives. An ideal collection for those interested in women's studies and US history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --Rebekah Ray, independent scholar