My Story of the War: A Woman's Personal Experience as a Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals. Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion.
Harford, Conn. A.D. Worthington and Co., 1889. Octavo. Item #024081
portrait fronispiece, 70 pp., (8) pp publisher's ads, illustrated with portraits and numerous full page engravings on steel and fine chromolithographic plates. A compelling memoir detailing her crucial work as a nurse and relief organizer for the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the American Civil War. She offers vivid accounts of hospital life, soldier's experiences, women's expanding roles in the war effort, and her encounters with figures like Grant and Lincoln, blending personal narrative with broader social commentary on nursing and women's rights. Bound in red clothlettered in gilt, decorated in blind, spine fully gilt decrorated but somewhat faded, floral endpapers, some scattered foxing to endpapers and frontipiece but internally clean and bright with tissue guards present for the striking plates. A very good copy.
Price: $175.00