The Other Side of War: 1862 (Expanded, Annotated)

During the American Civil War, it was women who formed the vanguard of demanding better sanitary conditions at field hospitals and in the city hospitals. Thousands of women volunteered to work in hospitals and for the Sanitary Commission, the organization that advocated better practices and lobbied for increased supplies.

Born in England, Katherine Prescott Wormeley was an American nurse in the Civil War, author, editor, and and one of America's best-known translators of French language lite...