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"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, #1 bestselling coauthors of Walk in My Combat Boots, powerfully present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. nurses. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From...
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Before her wider fame as the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott achieved recognition for her accounts of her work as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital. Written during the winter of 1862-63, her lively dispatches appeared in the newspaper Commonwealth, where they were eagerly read by soldiers' friends and families. Then, as now, these chronicles revealed the desperate realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps...
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Three Years in Field Hospitals of the Army of the Potomac is a memoir written by American nurse and reformer, Mary Phinney von Olnhausen (1828-1902). The book was published in 1867 and chronicles Mary's experiences as a nurse during the American Civil War. Mary Phinney von Olnhausen was born in Massachusetts and was from a wealthy family. During the war, she volunteered as a nurse for the Union Army, working in field hospitals throughout the Eastern...
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1861
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Collection consists of photocopies of Bailiff family papers, including obituaries of Daniel and Harriet Bailiff, Civil War letters from Daniel (Company A, 12th Regiment Indiana Volunteers) to his family, and from his wife to Daniel. Also included are a history of Mapleton Methodist Church (1843-18884) and a picture of an Indianapolis mule-powered street car (1895).
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