Confederate Nurse

by Berlin, Jean V.

• ISBN13: 9781570033865
• ISBN10: 1570033862
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

Although the Civil War was the first major American conflict in which women nurses played a significant role, the dearth of information about these women makes the diary of a Southern medical worker an especially important document. A Confederate Nurse records the daily experiences, hardships, and joys of Ada W. Bacot, a plantation owner and childless widow whose Southern patriotism prompted her to leave her native South Carolina to care for wounded Confederates in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bacot's journal sheds light on her own experiences and also on the themes that dominated the lives of Southern white women throughout the nineteenth century. A Confederate Nurse reveals the Confederate nationalism that motivated some Southern women and the work these women performed to sustain the war effort.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(15)
September 11, 1860-May 26, 1861	16	(22)
May 28-November 27, 1861	38	(21)
December 6, 1861-January 19, 1862	59	(16)
January 20-March 31, 1862	75	(26)
April 1-June 20, 1862	101	(28)
July 17-September 3, 1862	129	(15)
September 5-November 4, 1862	144	(16)
November 5, 1862-January 18, 1863	160	(21)
Epilogue	181	(6)
For Further Reading	187	(2)
Index	189