An Army Nurse in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)

An Army Nurse in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)
Author: Adelaide W. Smith
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

One of the most prominent nurses to serve in the American Civil War, Ada Smith was at the center of action. She met Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and many of the other military men and civilians in the conflict. This lively and engaging memoir is like many of those by nurses of the Civil War. They saw the horrible cost of the war in terms of shattered bodies and shattered minds. They held the hand of many a dying man and Ada's story is very much the story of the human side of war. But they also heard the guns and had rifle balls whistling through their hospital tents. After the war, Ada continued her work to help veterans, as well as engaging in the fight for women's suffrage. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Fearless Purpose: A Blind Nurse in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)

Fearless Purpose: A Blind Nurse in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)
Author: Emily Elizabeth Parsons
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN:

Nearly blind from an accident in childhood, deaf from complications of scarlet fever, and perpetually suffering from an ankle injury, Emily Parsons nevertheless enrolled in nursing school at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Already 37, she never married and made the care of others her fearless purpose in life. Despite her handicaps, she was appointed head of nursing on a large riverboat at Vicksburg during the siege of that city. She was stricken with malaria and sent to New York to recover. Upon recovery, she later headed nursing at the 2,500-bed Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis. Her abilities and tenderness with soldiers was remarked upon by many. In this wonderful collection of her letters to family (with an introduction by her father), you'll come to know this remarkable woman. Available for the first time as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, Emily Elizabeth Parson's great service to others deserves to be read by a new, modern, and wider audience. Emily Elizabeth Parsons (March 8, 1824 --.May 19, 1880) Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Kate Cumming's Civil War Journal (Abridged, Annotated)

Kate Cumming's Civil War Journal (Abridged, Annotated)
Author: Kate Cumming
Publisher:
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2016-11-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781519053817

Kate Cumming has become an iconic minor figure of the American Civil War. Her book has been excerpted many times in other works and even in the PBS documentary, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.Her extraordinary journal of her time as a nurse in Confederate hospitals is important for illuminating the history of medicine of Civil War nurses and as an example of the writing of an educated southern woman caught up in the catastrophic effects of war. Kate was highly religious, poetic, compassionate, amusing, embittered by the war, blamed Abraham Lincoln for all that befell the south, and was blind to the realities of African-American life. Yet her record captures the reader and it is difficult to dislike her.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870

Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870
Author: Daneen Wardrop
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2015-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1609383672

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
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496203763

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."

Reminiscences of an Army Nurse

Reminiscences of an Army Nurse
Author: Adelaide W. Smith
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781333321307

Excerpt from Reminiscences of an Army Nurse: During the Civil War At the risk of some slight repetition, it has been thought best to include Recollections of Lincoln and Love in Camp practically as they were when published separately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Women's Work in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)

Women's Work in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)
Author: Brockett & Vaughn
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Total Pages: 623
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN:

They were young, they were old, they were mothers, sisters, wives, widows, and neighbors. They were ladies of high social position, farmer's wives, and school teachers. Shells and bullets flew through the very tents and hospitals in which they worked. They worked with African-American soldiers, freed slaves, and rebel soldiers. They not only gave up their time and exhausted themselves serving others, many lost their lives to the same diseases that killed the soldiers for whom they were caring. They even fought as soldiers. They were the Union women of the American Civil War and their role in support of the cause was vastly broader and more essential than most people realize. Here are the stories of some of the prominent and the not-so-prominent. Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, and Emily Parsons are only three of the many women profiled in this work written right after the Civil War. Without their leadership and tireless efforts, the outcome of the war would have been very different. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War

Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Author: Adelaide W. Smith
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-07-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780649136728

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