My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospi

by Mary Livermore

Book Overview

"Provides a testament to the enormous and wide-ranging contributions made by Union women and suggests how these women began to undermine traditional conceptions of womanhood."--Nina Silber

When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one of a handful of women to achieve national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306806584
• ISBN13: 9780306806582
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.2" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

the war, first hand.

This book was assigned to me in my civil war Grad class, along with McPherson's battle cry of freedom. I have to say it complements it very well. Mcphersons books makes you feel like your hovering above the country during the war. If you read Livermore at the same time, your put into the war. Yes the book is a little wordy and jumps all over the place, but it holds your attention. Their are some truly moving parts in this great book from the 19th century!

Eyewitness to Civil War

Mary Livermore was there . . . a Chicago woman who went to Civil War battlefields and nursed wounded men there. Once back in Chicago, she and others organized huge drives to collect supplies for the wounded, who were not being properly cared for at government facilities. She will bring you into those years as you read this book. Sure, she gets a little wordy sometimes -- this is the nineteenth century, after all! The previous reviewer took exception to the term, "suffragette" -- that was the term at the time; this is the original title of the book. Language changes.