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Heroines of Mercy Street : the real nurses of the civil war / Pamela D. Toler, PhD.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780316392075
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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 indispensible -- 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 -- Publisher's description.

Foreword by Ridley Scott.

"Companion to Mercy Street on PBS"--Cover.

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 indispensible -- 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 -- Publisher's description.

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