Hospital Sketches
ISBN:
9781406956849 (1406956848)
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...