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

"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"-- The 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 nurs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toler, Pamela D. (Author)
Other Authors: Scott, Ridley (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, > 1802-1887.
Olnhausen, Mary Phinney von, > 1818-1902.
Reading, Anne.
Nurses > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.