Civil War Nurse Narratives 1863 1870

Author : Daneen Wardrop
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383672
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870 written by Daneen Wardrop and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Daneen Wardrop
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383680
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870 written by Daneen Wardrop and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870, examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, ranging from the well-known Louisa May Alcott to lesser-known figures such as Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hospitals of Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, to the field at Gettysburg in the aftermath of the battle, to the camps bordering front lines during active combat, these nurse narrators reported on what they saw and experienced for an American audience hungry for tales of individual experience in the war. As a subgenre of war literature, the Civil War nurse narrative offered realistic reportage of medical experiences and declined to engage with military strategies or Congressional politics. Instead, nurse narrators chronicled the details of attending wounded soldiers in the hospital, where a kind of microcosm of US democracy-in-progress emerged. As the war reshaped the social and political ideologies of the republic, nurses labored in a workplace that reflected cultural changes in ideas about gender, race, and class. Through interactions with surgeons and other officials they tested women’s rights convictions, and through interactions with formerly enslaved workers they wrestled with the need to live up to their own often abolitionist convictions and support social equality. By putting these accounts in conversation with each other, Civil War Nurse Narratives productively explores a developing genre of war literature that has rarely been given its due and that offers refreshing insights into women’s contributions to the war effort. Taken together, these stories offer an impressive and important addition to the literary history of the Civil War.

Author : Cornelia Hancock
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496203763
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of a Civil War Nurse written by Cornelia Hancock and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Hannah Anderson Ropes
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497902
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Nurse written by Hannah Anderson Ropes and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Fireship Press
ISBN 13 : 193475725X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue, Gray and Red written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Fireship Press. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Nurses - Two Experiences - One Civil War Blue, Gray and Red presents the hard reality of the Civil War. There are no stirring bugle calls, only the calls of the wounded. There are no battlefield heroics, but there is also no lack of heroism. It presents the suffering and courage of both sides, as written by two people-two nurses-who lived through it. Not many people realize that Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, was also a Civil War nurse. While serving at the Union Hospital in Washington DC, she wrote a series of letters to her family describing her experiences. These were published in Commonwealth magazine. and eventually became the basis for Hospital Sketches-the book that is presented here. In 1862 Kate Cumming volunteered to be a nurse for the Confederacy and saw duty until the end of the war in 1865. During that period she kept a journal, which was later turned into a book called A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This was later re-edited and published as Gleanings from Southland, which is the version used here. Her account is made all the more tragic by the fact that she was not only reporting on the horrors of the battlefield, but on the horrors of a country that was literally being dismantled around her. No understanding of the Civil War can be complete without appreciating this side of the war as well.

Author : Libra Rose Hilde
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932122
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worth a Dozen Men written by Libra Rose Hilde and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Nursing written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019905876
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes of Hospital Life, From November, 1861 to August, 1863 written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving memoir, Lippincott recounts her experiences as a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. She provides a firsthand account of the daily struggles and tragedies of life in a hospital during wartime, shedding light on the important and often overlooked role of nurses in caring for wounded soldiers. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of nursing and the Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ada White Bacot
Publisher : Women's Diaries and Letters of
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Confederate Nurse written by Ada White Bacot and published by Women's Diaries and Letters of. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Ashton Livermore
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782891242
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Story Of The War: written by Mary Ashton Livermore and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. The work of the United States Sanitary Commission in aiding the Federal war effort cannot be underestimated. Through its tens of thousands of members spread all across the North, they brought succour and aid to U.S. Army soldiers and particularly their sick and wounded. One of its most distinguished members was Mary Livermore, a seasoned advocate of liberal rights (and after the Civil War, Women’s Sufferage), who was at the forefront of the medical effort of the U.S.S.C. Her memoirs in the front-line hospital and wards spanned from the early days of the Civil War at the battle of Shiloh right through to its conclusion. She was also heavily involved in the fund raising efforts of her commission and received backing from the highest sources.