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Little Women in the Civil War
About 20,000 women volunteered in military hospitals during the Civil War. Unfortunately, the majority of them left little or no written evidence of their sacrifice in the war. Louisa May Alcott, renowned 19th-century author of Little Women, was one of them, and her service is documented in a Washington, D.C., hospital’s muster roll. Alcott was [...]
Posted by Hilary on November 29, 2011, under - Civil War, Unusual documents.
Tags: 1862, abolitionist, calomel, civil war, Dorothea Dix, Hospital Sketches, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, mercury poisoning, military hospitals, nurses, typhoid
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