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11 de may. de 2011 · Civil War Collection Vol 2 (LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Homer B. Sprague, U. S. Grant, J.H. Kidd, H. Beam Piper) 900
26 de feb. de 2016 · Louisa used her letters home to her family as the inspiration for Hospital Sketches, a series of lightly-fictionalised narratives of life as a Civil War nurse, first serialised in the Boston-based Commonwealth in May and June of 1863 and published later that year in one collection by James Redpath.
Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. 5 Great Civil War books in 1 eBook. Some fiction and some historical a must have for any Civi… Civil War Collection Vol 2 by Louisa May Alcott | Goodreads
FROM CHAPTER ELEVEN: I’ve Often Longed to See a War. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, by Harriet Reisen. By 1862, as she approached her thirtieth birthday Louisa was restless, and hungry for adventure before it was too late. “Decided to go to Washington as a nurse if I could find a place,” she wrote in her journal for ...
- November, 1862
- December, 1862
- January, 1863
- February, 1862
November. – Thirty years old. Decided to go to Washington as nurse if I could find a place. Help needed, and I love nursing, and mustlet out my pent-up energy in some new way. Winter is always a hard and a dull time, and if I am away there is one less to feed and warm and worry over. I want new experiences, and am sure to get ’em if I go. So I’ve s...
December. – On the 11th I received a note from Miss H. M. Stevenson telling me to start for Georgetown next day to fill a place in the Union Hotel Hospital. Mrs. Ropes of Boston was matron, and Miss Kendall of Plymouth was a nurse there, and though a hard place, help was needed. I was ready, and when my commander said “March!” I marched. Packed my ...
January, 1863. Union Hotel Hospital, Georgetown, D. C. – I never began the year in a stranger place than this: five hundred miles from home, alone, among strangers, doing painful duties all day long, and leading a life of constant excitement in this great house, surrounded by three or four hundred men in all stages of suffering, disease, and death....
February – Recovered my senses after three weeks of delirium, and was told I had had a very bad typhoid fever, had nearly died, and was still very sick. All of which seemed rather curious, for I remembered nothing of it. Found a queer, thin, big-eyed face when I looked in the glass; didn’t know myself at all; and when I tried to walk discovered tha...
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War Experience 47 this way. Indeed, the sketches have been continually described in such terms; for example, Bessie Z. Jones refers to Hospital Sketches as "un-premeditated art" and "straight-from-the-front reports."9 Even in the most recent biography of Alcott, Susan Cheever writes, "In a world of slow, erratic ...
Books. Louisa May Alcott's Civil War. Edinborough Press, 2007 - Authors, American - 265 pages. The Civil War stories of one of America's most beloved writers are gathered in this...
