title: Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse
author: Jane Stuart Woolsey
description: Happily, over a century later, this wonderfully composed memoir is widely accessible, attractively presented, and affordable. -- <i>Civil War Magazine</i><br /><br />Probably the best book about the Civil War by a woman writer. The author is intelligent, kind, perceptive, and restrained. -- <i>George Adams, Author, Doctors in Blue</i><br /><br />This excellent memoir will appeal to both scholars and general readers alike... -- <i>Linda G. Black, The Civil War</i>
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  Woman's Work in the Civil War
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PREFACE.  
  
  
    
  [INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.  
  
  
    
  [INTRODUCTION.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CIVIL WAR.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.  
  
  
    
  [PART I.  
  
  
    
  [DOROTHEA L. DIX  
  
  
    
  [PART II.  
  
  
    
  [CLARA HARLOWE BARTON.[C]  
  
  
    
  [HELEN LOUISE GILSON.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. JOHN HARRIS.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. ELIZA C. PORTER  
  
  
    
  [MRS. MARY A. BICKERDYKE.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. STEPHEN BARKER  
  
  
    
  [AMY M. BRADLEY  
  
  
    
  [MRS. ARABELLA G. BARLOW.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. NELLIE MARIA TAYLOR.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. ADALINE TYLER.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. WILLIAM H. HOLSTEIN.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY  
  
  
    
  [MRS. SARAH R. JOHNSTON.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. ALMIRA FALES.  
  
  
    
  [MISS CORNELIA HANCOCK.  
  
  
    
  [HOSPITAL TRANSPORT SERVICE.  
  
  
    
  [OTHER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOSPITAL TRANSPORT CORPS.  
  
  
    
  [KATHERINE P. WORMELEY  
  
  
    
  [THE MISSES WOOLSEY.  
  
  
    
  [ANNA MARIA ROSS.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. G. T. M. DAVIS.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. LYDIA G. PARRISH.  
  
  
    
  [MRS. ANNIE 