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This Birth Place of Souls - The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton (Paperback)
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This Birth Place of Souls - The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton (Paperback)
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After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to
Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in
the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church,
with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital
Association and made the widowed Eaton its relief agent in the
field. Doing the work of nurse and provisioner, Eaton tended
wounded men and those with smallpox and diphtheria during two tours
of duty. Eaton found the politics of daily toil challenging.
Conflict between Eaton and coworker Isabella Fogg erupted almost
immediately over issues of propriety. Though Eaton praised some of
the surgeons with whom she worked, she labeled others charlatans
whose neglect had deadly implications for the rank and file. If she
saw villainy, she also saw opportunities to convert soldiers and
developed an intense spiritual connection with a private, which
appears to have led to a postwar liaison. Published here for the
first time, the uncensored nursing diary is a rarity among medical
accounts of the war, showing Eaton to be an astute observer of
human nature and less straight-laced than we might have thought.
This edition includes an extensive introduction by the editor,
transcriptions of relevant letters and newspaper articles, and a
biographical dictionary of the most prominent people mentioned in
the diary.
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