Civil War Hospital Sketches
Before Little Women brought her wider fame, Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862-63, her lively dispatches revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps...
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Before Little Women brought her wider fame, Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862-63, her lively dispatches revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486449005 (0486449009)
ASIN: 486449009
Publish date: February 10th 2006
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
American,
War,
19th Century,
Biography Memoir,
Military History,
Civil War
This book is Alcott's memoir of her time nursing in a Civil War-era hospital, and was particularly timely reading due to the recent 150th anniversary of Pres. Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Alcott makes reference to her family's abolitionist beliefs, as well as the New Year's Day ef...
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