A Battle Lost

Maxwell, Gordon S

Edinborough Press

The story of Jane Stuart Woolseyâ€™s service as Superintendent of Nurses at the Fairfax Seminary Hospital during the Civil War offers insights into the role of women in our nationâ€™s greatest conflict and the beginnings of the nursing profession.

Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse

Biographies & Memoirs

Woolsey, Janes S.

Woolsey, James Stuart

Woolsey, Jane Stuart

Community & Culture

During the Civil War, more than five thousand women served the Union cause as army nurses. In 1895 Mary Gardner Holland collected these reminiscences, reprinted here for the first time. In this book, you will read the stories of one hundred of these women, often in their own voice. Some are well-known--Clara Barton, Mary Livermore, Dorothea Dix, and Mother Bickerdyke. Others served their country, often heroically, and returned home to a quiet life. The women recall a time when their work made a difference. One nurse, Vesta Swartz, wrote, "The war for the preservation of the Union...did much to advance the best interests of women. It created a necessity for her labor in new and untried ways. It gave her an opportunity to prove her ability...and cultivate true courage." OUR ARMY NURSES provides a rich picture of the role of women in the Civil War. The impact of their stories, Frank Freeman writes in Microbes and Minie Balls, "... is quite moving."

Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War

Mary Gardner Holland

Historical

Following the battle of Gettysburg, the United States Christian Commission provided spiritual and physical care to thousands of wounded and dying soldiers of both armies. More than three hundred volunteers came to the battlefield, leaving a legacy of a thousand little nameless acts. In his introductory essay, Daniel Hoisington explains the pivotal role that the Christian Commission played at Gettysburg and its lasting effect on evangelical Christianity. Delegates included J. B. Stilton, Dwight Moody's mentor, George Junkin, Stonewall Jackson's father-in-law and staunch Unionist, Rowland Howard brother of General Oliver O. Howard and later Secretary of the American Peace Society, and George Duffield, composer of the hymn, Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus! The book includes important contemporary accounts of the battle's aftermath, including the first complete publication of the diary of John Calhoun Chamberlain, one of the first delegates at Gettysburg and brother of the hero of Little Round Top. Jane Boswell Moore's letters provide a glimpse of women s work among the soldiers. Andrew Cross' official report describes the carnage of battle as a most fearful judgment of God upon a nation and people. In a postwar story, George Peltz tells of a return to the Second Corps Hospital eight years later on a final mission of mercy.

Gettysburg and the Christian Commission

History

Daniel J. Hoisington

Americas

Through the story of this one family, the reader glimpses the sweep of the northern Civil War experience. The Woolseys of New York City -- a widowed mother, seven daughters, and one son devoted their lives to the preservation of their beloved Union. Georgeanna, Jane, Eliza, Carry, and Hatty served in military hospitals. Abby organized sewing and supply work for the Women's Central Association of Relief. Mary wrote patriotic poems. "Moremamma" Woolsey rushed to Gettysburg to nurse the wounded. This book tells us of women carving out a role in the wider war effort and the beginnings of the nursing profession. It is a journey into the social world of wealthy New York society. It is one of the great family stories of the Civil War.

My Heart Toward Home: Letters of a Family During the Civil War

Georgeanna Woolsey Bacon

Eliza Woolsey Howland

This collection of Civil War stories of one of America's most beloved writers, Louisa May Alcott, includes the full text of "Hospital Sketches" - Alcott's fictionalised account of her service as a nurse - and eight dramatic short stories about the personal effects of the war. The historical narrative includes excerpts from her Civil War-era journals, giving a glimpse into how real life inspired fiction, and the insightful introduction emphasises the impact that the Civil War had on Alcott's writings.

Louisa May Alcott's Civil War

Literature & Fiction

louisa-may-alcott

Contemporary

One of the most famous Union spies during the Civil War, Pauline Cushman's exploits over the course of a few weeks in Kentucky and Tennessee secured her place in the annals of the war, yet the traditional stories are often based on myth rather than fact. This sweeping biography follows her service as a spy, detailing how she gained renown as Miss Major Pauline Cushman and embarked on a tempestuous life that took her from P. T. Barnum's New York stage to the Wild West of Arizona and California.

Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland

William J. Christen

A sixteen-year-old minister’s daughter, Emma faces relationship challenges with her parents and her peers when the United States enters World War I and anti-German hysteria sweeps through New Ulm, Minnesota.

A Long Year of Silence

Kathryn Adams Doty

United States

Amanda Shelton's diary tells the remarkable story of her service as a nurse for the Union on the frontlines of the Civil War in 1864, where she battled for her career amidst wounded and dying soldiers. Unlike Clara Barton or Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Shelton's name is rarely mentioned in tandem with other important female figures of this episode in history, yet her diary definitively recounts the unique contribution she made to the war effort. Working alongside the small band of nurses of the Special Diet Kitchens, her accomplishments laid the foundation for the value of individualized care, which remains a core concept in modern nursing.

Turn Backward, O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton

Medical Books

Kathleen S. Hanson

Nursing

Set in rural Missouri in the 1920s, the story deals with difficult issues that confront the gentle moral spirit of Elizabeth Eibers, who is placed in an orphanage when hard times force her mother to take a night job. There, suffering under the strict discipline of Father Gastmann, she finds solace in her growing friendship with Georgiana, a tough, "wild" orphan. And when her mother contracts tuberculosis, Elizabeth is forced to confront the truth about her missing father.

Wild Orphan

Children's Books

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