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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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
Other title:
  • Mercy Street : the real nurses of the Civil War
  • Real nurses of the Civil War
Uniform titles:
  • Companion to: Mercy Street (Television program)
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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.
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 description.
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Book Book Decatur Public Library Adult non-fiction Adult non-fiction 973.775 TOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31564004925366
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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.

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