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This Birth Place of Souls - The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,026
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This Birth Place of Souls - The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton (Paperback): Jane E Schultz

This Birth Place of Souls - The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton (Paperback)

Jane E Schultz

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2012
First published: May 2012
Editors: Jane E Schultz (Professor of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies)
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-989954-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 0-19-989954-1
Barcode: 9780199899548

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