A Southern Woman's Story is the inaugural volume in the University
of South Carolina Press's new paperback series, American Civil War
Classics. First published in 1879, the book chronicles Phoebe
Pember's experiences as matron of the Confederate Chimborazo
Hospital from November 1862 until the fall of Richmond in April
1865. Long an important source in Confederate history, A Southern
Woman's Story is also a valuable book for students and scholars of
women's history and the social history of the Civil War.
In many ways Phoebe Yates Pember (1823-1913) was a
representative upper-class gentlewoman. The daughter of a Jewish
merchant of Charleston who moved his family to Savannah in the
1850s, she sought ways to help the Southern cause but she broke all
stereotypes by the character and length of her service. Widowed and
childless in 1861, Pember took the post of matron at the
Confederate Army's Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. She
labored there throughout the war and later recorded her experiences
in A Southern Woman's Story. No dilettante's romance or saccharine
Lost Cause tale, it is a remarkably frank treatment of Confederate
social and medical history. Pember reports on the gossip and
scandals from inside the Confederacy's largest hospital and the
embattled city of Richmond, presenting bureaucratic personalities
and stock characters with insight and humor.
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