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Title: Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes by Hannah Ropes, John R. Brumgardt ISBN: 0-87049-790-1 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Woman who Cared...
Comment: Hannah Ropes kept a diary for only one year during the time she served as a nurse in the Civil War. She actually supervised Louisa Mae Alcott and was responsible for many of the reforms in the hospital where she worked. She was a well-spoken woman who was also not afraid to stand up to her male supervisors. She cared very much for, "her boys" as she called the patients she worked over day and night. She is one of those women who has not been given credit and has not been well-known until recently. Her untimely death ended a daring career as a feminist and take-charge Civil War Nurse. This is fascinating and inspirational reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: I'm mad at Ms. Ropes. She should have written more!
Comment: Hannah Ropes was a feminist of her day. Yet she believed a wounded soldier needed a motherly woman's touch. These letters are a great gift and the editing job on the book is superb.
Ropes worked herself to death in Union hospitals in Washington D.C. The Union lost a good nurse and history lost a terrific writer. (In fact Ropes was a writer before the war.) She battled anyone who got in the way of good health care including going all the way to and old friend, the Secretary of War to roust out a thief in the hospital system. She poignantly describes the wounded wrecks who passed her way and the efforts made by those who cared are poignantly described as well. Ropes writing abilities were great. They are aided markedly by the brief biography of her which serves as introduction to the book. Through it, we come to know the iron will of the woman which was so beneficial to her as a nurse but which she herself down-played. For any who value "first person history" this book is a gem!
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Title: In Hospital and Camp: The Civil War Through the Eyes of Its Doctors and Nurses by Harold Elk Straubing ISBN: 0811716317 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865 by Cornelia Hancock, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette ISBN: 0803273126 Publisher: Bison Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in Civil War by Mary Gardner Holland, Mary G. Holland ISBN: 1889020044 Publisher: Edinborough Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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