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History of U.S. Army Nurses: PRE-WORLD WAR I

USAHEC's U.S. Army Nurses Reference Bibliography

Websites

Civil War Nurses' Letter
National Archives
Digitized Civil War Diaries
University of Maryland Libraries
Primary Sources on Nurses
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Spanish-American War Nurses Monument
Arlington National Cemetery

Spanish American War

“Band of Angels: Sister Nurses in the Spanish-American War.”
Mercedes Graf. Prologue 34, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 196.

Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain by U.S. Congress. Senate.
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E725.U62
(Washington, DC: GPO, 1900).
8 vols. See Vol. I, 723-34

Civil War: General

Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others by Larry G. Eggleston
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E628 .E38 2003
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003).
To Bind Up the Wounds: Catholic Sister Nurses in the U.S. Civil War by Mary Denis Maher
Call Number: Ridgway Hall UM24 1861-65 .M332 1989
(New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1989).
In Hospital and Camp: The Civil War Through the Eyes of its Doctors and Nurses by Harol Elk Straubing, compiler
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621 .S86 1993
(Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1993).
She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War by Bonnie Tsui
Call Number: Ridgway Hall . E628 .T78 2006
(Guilford, CT: TwoDot, 2006).
Includes chapter on Civil War Nurses

“To Do with Honor”: The Roman Catholic Sister Nurse in the United States Civil War
Mary Denis Maher. PhD diss., (Case Western Reserve University, 1988).
Ridgway Hall UM24 1861-65.M33 1988a

Civil War: Union Nurses

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
Call Number: Ridgway Hall PS648.C54 H67 1863
(Boston, MA: James Redpath, 1863).
Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War by Louisa May Alcott
Call Number: Ridgway Hall PS1018 A43 2007
Introduction by Jan Turnquist. (Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press, 2007).
Cyclone in Calico: The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke by Nina Brown Baker
Call Number: Ridgway Hall UM142.B53 B34 1952
(Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1952).
Ministering Angel: The Reminiscences of Harriet A. Dada, a Union Army Nurse in the Civil War by Harriet A. Dada
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.D33 A3 2004
Compiled by Edmund J. Raus, Jr. (Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2004).
This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton by Harriet Eaton
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621 .E28 2011
Edited and introduced by Jane E. Schultz (Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman’s Adventures in the Union Army by Sarah Emma Edmonds
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E628.E26 A3 1999
Introduced and annotated by Elizabeth D. Leonard (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999).
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma Edmonds
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E608.E242
(Hartford, CT: W.S. Williams, 1867).
Reminiscences of the Life of a Nurse in Field, Hospital and Camp, During the Civil War by Annie Priscilla Zerbe Erving
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.E73
(Newburgh, NY: Daily News, 1904).
Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865 by Cornelia Hancock
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.H29 A3 1998
Edited by Henrietta Stratton Jaquette (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998).
South After Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865 by Cornelia Hancock
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.H29 A3
Edited by Henrietta Stratton Jaquette (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1937).
My Story of the War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of the Rebellion: With Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents... by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621 .L79
(Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington & Company, 1889).
Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars: ed. From the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness von Olnhausen by James Phinney Munroe
Call Number: Ridgway Hall UM142.O4
(Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1903).
Mary Phinney was involved in both the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War.
Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes by Hannah Anderson Ropes
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.R663
Edited, with introduction and commentary by John R. Brumgardt (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1980).
Reminiscences of an Army Nurse during the Civil War by Adelaide W. Smith
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.S64
(New York, NY: Greaves Publishing Company, 1911).
The Lady Nurse of Ward E by Amanda Akin Stearns
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.S79
(New York, NY: Baker & Taylor Company, 1909).
Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse by Jane Stuart Woolsey
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.W86 1996
Introduction by Daniel John Hoisington (Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press, 1996).

The Women Who went to the War: The Union Army Nurse in the Civil War
Nina Bennett Smith. PhD diss. (Northwestern University, 1981).

Civil War: Confederate Nurses

A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863 by Ada W. Bacot
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E625.B33 1994
Edited by Jean V. Berlin (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994).
Exile to Sweet Dixie: The Story of Euphemia Goldsborough, Confederate Nurse and Smuggler by E. F. Conklin
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E625.W55 C66 1998
(Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1998).
A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee: From the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War: with Sketches of Life and Character, and Brief Notices of Current Events during that Period by Kate Cumming
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621 .C84
(Louisville, KY: J.P. Morgan & Co., 1866).
Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse by Kate Cumming
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.C84 1998
(Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1998).
Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South by Libra Rose Hilde
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E625.H55 2012
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012).
Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addreses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women who served in Hospitals and on Battlefields during our Civil War by Mary Gardner Holland
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621.H74 1865
(Boston, MA: Wilkins, 1865).
Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War by Mary Gardner Holland
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621 .H742 1998
Introduction by Daniel John Hoisington (Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press, 1998).
Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women, 1861-1865 by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E487 .J772 v.15
( Murfreesboro, TN: Southern Heritage Press, 1996).

Clara Barton

Clara Barton, Humanitarian: From Official Records, Letters, and Contemporary Papers by Corra Bacon-Foster
Call Number: Ridgway Hall HV569.B3 B3
(Washington, D.C.: Columbia Historical Society, 1918).
Clara Barton: In the Service of Humanity by David H. Burton
Call Number: Ridgway Hall HV569.B3 B87 1995
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).
Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War by Stephen B. Oats
Call Number: Ridgway Hall E621 .O24 1994
(New York, NY: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994).
Clara Barton: Professional Angel by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Call Number: Ridgway Hall HV569.B3 P78 1987
(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987).
Clara Barton, Daughter of Destiny by Blanche Colton Williams
Call Number: Ridgway Hall HV569.B3 W55
(Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941).

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