Research Guides: Civil War Medicine: Nurses and Nursing

Books at Health Sciences Library

Women doctors and nurses of the Civil War by Lesli J. Favor
Call Number: Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives E621 .F38 2004
ISBN: 0823944522
Hospital days : reminiscence of a Civil War nurse by Jane Stuart Woolsey
Call Number: Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives E621 .W87 2001
ISBN: 1889020095
To bind up the wounds : Catholic sister nurses in the U.S. Civil War by Mary Denis Maher
Call Number: Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives E621 .M34 1999
ISBN: 0807124397

Civil War Nursing
Introduction to the topic
Hospital Sketches
Louisa May Alcott's sketches recounting her experiences as a nursing during the Civil War
Nurse and spy in the Union army
Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds book on her hospital experiences during the Civil War
Sisters of Charity and the Civil War
Article on the Sisters of Charity's activities during the Civil War
Women in the Civil War: Five Nurses from St. Lawrence County
New York women and their stories during the Civil War
Women of the war: their heroism and self-sacrifice
Frank Moore's 1866 book on women in the Civil War
A Southern Woman's Story
Phobe Yates Pember's memories of her work as a nurse during the Civil War.

Links to biographies, finding aids, articles, and other information on Civil War nurses.

Barton, Clara
- Clara Harlowe Barton (1821-1912)
Bickerdyke, Mary Ann 1817-1901
- Mother Bickerdyke Heroine of the Civil War
Dix, Dorothea
- Dorothea Dix, 1802-1887
Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie
- Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins: Nurse, Confederate States of America
- Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice
- Mary Livermore
- Mary Livermore Biography
Palmer, Ella 1829-1909
- Ella Palmer
Pember, Phoebe Yates
- Phoebe Pember biography
- Phoebe Yates Levy Pember Papers
Tompkins, Sally Louisa