![]() ![]() ![]() In typical Victorian lady fashion, LMA assumes the guise of Tribulation Periwinkle who then provides a first-person account of LMA's own experiences-deciding to join the nursing core, traveling alone by train to Washington, living in a boarding house, working in a hospital (she tended the wounded from the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. On the other hand, her time as a nurse on her own in a city far from her Concord home during the war broadened her vision and deepened her perspective. She had contracted typhus at the hospital and was treated with a compound containing mercury, which wreaked havoc on her body and most probably shortened her life. Of this time, she said that she was rarely ill before it and never truly well afterwards. LMA only served as a nurse for three weeks, but this brief service changed her life profoundly. For my last book of 2012, I read Louisa May Alcott's collection of newspapers articles she wrote about her time as a Civil War nurse in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() As part of my Civil War reading, I am trying to mix it up between fiction (contemporary and historical), non-fiction, memoir, war and social issues. ![]()
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