My Heart Toward Home : Letters of a Family During the Civil War

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781889020075
• ISBN10: 1889020079
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Edinborough Press

Summary

Through the story of this one family, the reader glimpses the sweep of the northern Civil War experience. The Woolseys of New York City -- a widowed mother, seven daughters, and one son devoted their lives to the preservation of their beloved Union. Georgeanna, Jane, Eliza, Carry, and Hatty served in military hospitals. Abby organized sewing and supply work for the Women's Central Association of Relief. Mary wrote patriotic poems. "Moremamma" Woolsey rushed to Gettysburg to nurse the wounded. This book tells us of women carving out a role in the wider war effort and the beginnings of the nursing profession. It is a journey into the social world of wealthy New York society. It is one of the great family stories of the Civil War.

Table of Contents

The Woolseys of New York	i
Introduction The Inner Personal History of the War	xiv
The Steady March to the Inevitable	1	(20)
A Most Extraordinary Mixture of Feeling	21	(54)
A Company of Army Nurses	75	(33)
What I Can Do	108	(27)
From Camp	135	(20)
The Army Advances	155	(28)
Simply Eyes & Hands	183	(28)
The Working Sisters	211	(30)
An Important & Useful Place	241	(28)
A Blessed Exile	269	(22)
Our Beloved Bohemia	291	(20)
Three Weeks at Gettysburg	311	(24)
God's Shadow Falls	335	(26)
How Can We Go Home?	361	(20)
Brotherhoods & Sisterhoods	381	(16)
The Mad, Sad Noble War Was Over	397	(22)
Epilogue Their Useful Hands	419	(8)
Index	427