Title: Heroines of Mercy Street:
The Real Nurses of the Civil War
Author: Pamela D. Toler PhD
Genre: Historical Non-fiction
Summary: Summary from Amazon:
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 new 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.
Rating: Excellent
Why I Like It: I first saw the series1 & 2 on PBS. This book added so much more information about what it was really like during the war. The series is very good but it couldn’t include all of the details that this book covered.
Other: audio – easy to listen to
Reviewer: Patsy
Author: Pamela D. Toler PhD
Genre: Historical Non-fiction
Summary: Summary from Amazon:
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 new 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.
Rating: Excellent
Why I Like It: I first saw the series1 & 2 on PBS. This book added so much more information about what it was really like during the war. The series is very good but it couldn’t include all of the details that this book covered.
Other: audio – easy to listen to
Reviewer: Patsy
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