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.
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Genre:
Physical Description:viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Uniform Title:Mercy Street (Television program)
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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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