Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War

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Overview

A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street.

Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded. These women saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and medicine was at a turning point.

Heroines of Mercy Street follows the lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and more before, during, and after their epic struggle in Alexandria and reveals their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316392068
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 01/10/2017
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Pamela D. Toler, Ph.D., a member of the World History Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, is regularly published in national journals specializing in history and culture, including American HistoryCalliopeHistory, the Quarterly Journal of Military History, and SaudiAramco World.

She is a contributor and author of several books including The Everything Guide to Understanding Socialism (Adams, 2011), She is particularly interested in the times and places where two cultures meet and change each other.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Dorothea Dix Goes to War 9

Chapter 2 The Army Is Unprepared 33

Chapter 3 Volunteers 51

Chapter 4 Nurses on the Hospital Transport Ships 73

Chapter 5 Arriving at Mansion House Hospital 99

Chapter 6 Learning by Experience 121

Chapter 7 Becoming Indispensable 143

Chapter 8 Leaving Mansion House Hospital 175

Chapter 9 Reporting Back to Duty 197

Chapter 10 After the War 221

Afterword: A Different Viewpoint 245

Acknowledgments 255

Appendix A 257

Appendix B 259

Notes 263

Suggestions for Further Reading 275

Index 277

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