Civil War nurse narratives, 1863-1870 /Daneen Wardrop.

Wardrop, Daneen, 1952-

Civil War nurse narratives, 1863-1870 /Daneen Wardrop. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781609383688


Women--History--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Nurses--History--United States--19th century.


Electronic Books.

E621 / .C585 2015