The Boys in White (Abridged, Annotated)

By Julia S. Wheelock

Considered one of the lesser known heroes of the Civil War, Julia Susan Wheelock's diary is a searing, honest, compassionate look at America's great disaster. Traveling to the south when notified of her brother's injury in battle, she arrived too late to care for him. But she stayed to nurse thousands more.She met Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton and others of note during the war. She wrote letters for and held the hands of dying young men. She reminds us that soldiers are not the only ones who suffer in war.Julia was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in October, 2002.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151905548X
• ISBN13: 9781519055484
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"