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Women at the front hospital workers in Civil War America /

Main Author: Schultz, Jane E.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Physical Description: xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Civil War America.
Subjects:
Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Confederate States of America -- History.
Hospitals -- United States -- Employees -- History -- 19th century.
Hospitals -- Confederate States of America -- Employees -- History.
Military nursing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Military nursing -- Confederate States of America -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
Table of Contents:
  • Women at the front
  • Getting to the hospital
  • Adjusting to hospital life
  • Coming into their own
  • After the war
  • Pensioning women
  • Memory and the triumphal narrative.

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