Civil War Hospital Sketches – February 10, 2006

Civil War Hospital Sketches Paperback – February 10, 2006

Author: Visit Amazon's Louisa May Alcott Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0486449009 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Civil War Hospital Sketches – February 10, 2006
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• Series: Civil War
• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (February 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486449009
• ISBN-13: 978-0486449005
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #10 in Books > History > Americas > United States > Civil War > Women
  • #65 in Books > History > World > Women in History

As part of my Civil War reading, I am trying to mix it up between fiction (contemporary and historical), non-fiction, memoir, war and social issues. For my last book of 2012, I read Louisa May Alcott's collection of newspapers articles she wrote about her time as a Civil War nurse in Washington, D.C. in December 1862 and January 1863.

LMA only served as a nurse for three weeks, but this brief service changed her life profoundly. Of this time, she said that she was rarely ill before it and never truly well afterwards. She had contracted typhus at the hospital and was treated with a compound containing mercury, which wreaked havoc on her body and most probably shortened her life. On the other hand, her time as a nurse on her own in a city far from her Concord home during the war broadened her vision and deepened her perspective.

In typical Victorian lady fashion, LMA assumes the guise of Tribulation Periwinkle who then provides a first-person account of LMA's own experiences--deciding to join the nursing core, traveling alone by train to Washington, living in a boarding house, working in a hospital (she tended the wounded from the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 11-15, 1862). The latter encompasses so much--the men themselves, some old but most heart-breakingly young--she held their hands as they died, read them letters from home, and wrote their final goodbyes, comforted their loved ones--she dressed wounds, assisted surgeons, fed and cleaned and comforted, and then finally fell ill herself.

At first the persona of Trib grated a bit--basically Jo March on steroids.

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