Research Guides: Civil War Medicine: Nurses and Nursing

Websites and Ebooks

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