This birth place of souls : the Civil War nursing diary of Harriet Eaton / edited with an introduction by Jane E. Schultz

Author: Eaton, Harriet, 1818-1884
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators: Schultz, Jane E.

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Contents

The diary -- 1862 : October 6 to December 31 -- 1863 : January 1 to May 12 --1864 : October 12 to December 24 -- Appendixes.

Summary

After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital Association and made the widowed Eaton its relief agent in the field. One of many Christians who believed that patriotic activism could redeem the nation, Eaton quickly learned that war was no respecter of religious principles. Doing the work of nurse and provisioner, Eaton tended wounded men and those with smallpox and diphtheria duri.

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9780199780730 (electronic bk.)
0199780730 (electronic bk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index.

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