Heroines of Mercy Street : the real nurses of the Civil War /
The nurses of the Civil War ushered in a new era for medicine in the midst of tremendous hardship. Toler tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital. Women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney and Anne Reading saw casualties on a scale Ame...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dorothea Dix goes to war
- The army is unprepared
- Volunteers
- Nurses on the hospital transport ships
- Arriving at Mansion House Hospital
- Learning by experience
- Becoming indispensable
- Leaving Mansion house Hospital
- Reporting back to duty
- After the war
- Afterword: a different viewpoint.