Bibliograph

Heroines of Mercy Street, the real nurses of the Civil War, Pamela D. Toler, PhD. ; foreword by Ridley Scott

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Label

Heroines of Mercy Street, the real nurses of the Civil War, Pamela D. Toler, PhD. ; foreword by Ridley Scott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Heroines of Mercy Street

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

923649614

Responsibility statement

Pamela D. Toler, PhD. ; foreword by Ridley Scott

Sub title

the real nurses of the Civil War

Summary

"Tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital, and the setting for the PBS show Mercy Street"--, Publisher's descriptionThe 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 Americans had never seen before, and working conditions were abysmal-- but they met the challenges every step of the way

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

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