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.