Heroines of Mercy Street : the real nurses of the Civil War / Pamela D. Toler, PhD. ; foreword by Ridley Scott.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0316392073
- 9780316392075
- Mercy Street : the real nurses of the Civil War
- Real nurses of the Civil War
- Companion to: Mercy Street (Television program)
- Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887
- Olnhausen, Mary Phinney von, 1818-1902
- Reading, Anne, 1823-
- Medicine, Military -- Alexandria (Va.) -- History
- Military hospitals -- Alexandria (Va.) -- History
- Military nursing -- United States -- History
- Nurses -- United States -- Biography
- Nursing -- Alexandria (Va.) -- History
- Alexandria (Va.) -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Decatur Public Library Adult non-fiction | Adult non-fiction | 973.775 TOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31564004925366 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
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.
"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 description.