Civil War Nursing

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994. 16 page publication from the US Sanitary Commission's rules related to the health of the soldiers during the Civil War, dated July 12, 1861. Includes 40 rules in total, covering such topics as management of wounded men, marching, not overdrilling the soldiers, tents and sleeping, etc. . 1994 Reprint of 1861. Paper. As New/No Jacket. more information

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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861. Scarce copy of this bound volume of the July through December, 1861 issues of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume VIII, No. XLV through L. Includes numerous articles, several of which are focused on the Civil War, asking what will the Rebellion gain, addressing the health in army camps, offering reminiscences of Stephen A. Douglas, looking at Washington as a camp, why the North felt aggrieved with England, etc. Also has poetry and non-war based stories/articles. . Original Edition. Library Binding. Very Good. Ex-Library. more information

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NY: Sagamore Press Inc., 1957. By the author of "Little Women", this explores Alcott's Civil War (slightly fictionalized) nursing experiences. These "sketches" of her experiences were "taken from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life. . . are simply a brief record of one person's hospital experience". Light exterior wear.. Reprint Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. more information

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Old Saybrook, CT: Applewood Books, 1993. By the author of "Little Women", this explores Alcott's Civil War (slightly fictionalized) nursing experiences. These "sketches" of her experiences were "taken from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life. . . are simply a brief record of one person's hospital experience". . Reprint Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. more information

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Chicago, IL: Ellen M. Sprague, 1880. Very nice copy of this Civil War story. Eliza Aiken (Aunt Lizzie) first served as a nurse with the Sixth Regiment, Illinois cavalry volunteers in the fall of 1861. She served tirelessly both with this Regiment, as well as at St. Mark's Hospital in Paducah, KY, at the Ovington general hospital in Memphis, TN, and at the Washington general hospital in Memphis through June of 1865 during the American Civil War. She was both a skillful nurse, as well as a source of great inspiration to the men under her care - this is her story of those experiences. Minor edgewear.. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1863. Cover has dampstains and is quite faded; interior is VG. "A sketch of its purposes and its work. Compiled from documents and private papers." Written by "one who served with the Commission from the first, and who may claim to comprehend its purposes and its work, and to relate its facts with accuracy". Written in the midst of the American Civil War. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Only/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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NY: The Macmillan Co., 1922. The definitive early history of American Red Cross nursing, edited by the noted nurse historian Lavinia Dock. Includes the experiences of thousands of nurses per their personal letters, reports and official correspondence. Describes "the magnificent contribution of American nurses in aid of human suffering". Illustrated. 1562 pages, with index. Cover has edgewear, moreso on the spine ends, and light rub marks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Co., 1966. Offers "a candid new biography, a full pictorial documentation, and a long, revealing selection of her own writings". Thus, offers a new look into this American heroine - Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross. Very well illustrated with both black and white, and color illustrations. Light exterior marks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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NY: Harold Vinal, Ltd., 1928. Poems, starting off with one that "embodies in a sequence of sonnets the life and career of Clara Barton, Civil War Nurse, and Organizer of the American Red Cross". Contains a total of 81 poems by the author.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+. more information

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Wisconsin: Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. The complete history of the role of Wisconsin women in the Civil War, sponsored by the Wisconsin History Commission. Focuses primarily on nursing and relief work. Illustrated. Spine end is darkened.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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Albany, NY: James B. Lyon, Printer, 1896. The autobiography of this Civil War Nurse "who in early life distinguished herself as a bitter opponent of slavery and intemperance, and later in life as a nurse in the late war; and for other patriotic and philanthropic services." Illustrated. Lacking spine cover; wear to edges and corners.. 1896 Printing of 1893 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket. more information

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Galesburg, IL: Log City Books, 1976. SIGNED by AUTHOR. Examines "the early years of Mother Bickerdyke, America's Florence Nightingale, and Patron Saint of Kansas", who served the Union Army through the Western Sanitary Commission in the Civil War. Illustrated. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information

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Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1893. Relates Ms. Livermore's experiences "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, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the Sanitary Service of the War." A necessary piece in any Civil War nursing collection. With steel engravings and color plates of battle flags. Wear to corners and spine ends; ffep and following blank page have horizontal tear of 1", inner hinge reinforced with tape, as is also the rear of the title page; back inner hinge cracked.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. more information

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Hartford, CT: S. S. Scranton & Co., 1867. An important piece for any Civil War collection. An anthology of biographies of over forty Civil War nurses, illustrated with steel engravings. 596 pages. This copy is SIGNED by the author's grand-niece, Mary Washington Bell, whose grandmother Lucretia Moore Osborn, was the author's sister. Wear to corners and spine ends; light foxing throughout.. SIGNED BY AUTHOR's Niece. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1867. Rubber stamps of former owner (Historical Society of Montgomery County, PA) on verso of front flyleaf and at top of introduction page. Scarce first edition of this "simple story of hospital scenes, and the unpretending sketches of the few brave soldiers to which they allude. . ." Primary source of Civil War nursing, once quoted by Dorothea Dix as a true representation of battlefield horrors. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. more information

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NY: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc, 1920. Cover has wear to corners and light rub marks; minor foxing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the front endpaper. 332 page autobiography of Alphonso David Rockwell, b. 1840 in New Canaan, CT; who attended medical school at the University of Michigan, and served as a surgeon/Major with the 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. Includes stories of his ride with General Sheridan, in the Battle of the Wilderness, Sheridan's Raid, the Battles of Yellow Tavern, Hawes' Shop, Cold Harbor, Trevilian Station, St. Mary's Church, the Capture of the Weldon Railroad, the Siege of Richmond and Petersburg, in pursuit of the Confederate Army, and Appomattox. After the war, he practiced in New York City and was a Professor in the New York Post Graduate Medical School. He was also a pioneer in electrotherapeutics. Includes several personal sketches of his friends and acquaintances. Illustrated.. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. more information

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NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956. Dust jacket has moderate wear around the edges and on the bottom right front corner; stains on rear of the dust jacket. Biography of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. Her extensive experiences are detailed as "the story sweeps from the battlefields of the Civil War to the court of the Emperor of Austria, from the Spanish-American War to the Galveston flood". . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Ex-Library. more information

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NY: Paragon House, 1991. The story of the Civil War heroine and champion of the mentally ill, Dorothea Lynde Dix. She also worked at prison reforms. Despite her lifelong battle with tuberculosis, "she became the country's first woman superintendent of nurses as she created the Nursing Corps of the Northern Army. . . helping wounded soldiers survive". A couple of pages have one to a few underlinings.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. more information

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1869. True stories experienced by members of the Christian Commission during the Civil War, which tried to convert the wounded and dying to Christianity, as well as to nurse them back to health. Illustrated. 512 pages; indexed. Spine and edge cloth fading.. 1869 Printing of 1868 First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information

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Philadelphia: Caxton Press of C. Sherman, Son & Co., 1864. Cover has moderate edgewear, including the splitting on the bottom front half of the spine strip; light marks. Offers "a series of letters from a field hosiptal and national poems". Includes a first-person account of her experiences witnessing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, as recorded by the observer on November 20, 1863 - the day after the Address was delivered. Indexed. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970. Stories of "Alabama Women in the Civil War", including stories of Civil War nurses in the Confederacy. Illustrated; bibliography; notes section; index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good +. more information

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Baltimore, MD: Cushings & Bailey, Publishers, 1885. This copy has moderate edgewear and rubmarks, as well as a partial beverage ring on the front cover. It is also MISSING pages 519-522, and 2 leaves have wear on the edges (no content missing on these 2 leaves). Very Scarce copy of this "series of letters addressed to John Morris, MD, of Baltimore, MD" on the author's experiences in the 2nd half of the nineteenth century - including his experiences as the Medical Inspector of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He also served as the Surgeon-in-Chief of the War Department of Egypt; Professor Emeritus College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, MD; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France; Commander of the Order of the Osmanieh of Turkey, etc. The series of letters are to "his honored colleague, for the reason that, as my mind reverts to the scenes of the past, he looms up most conspicuously as the friend of their shade and their sunshine"'; with this series of letters recounting "the history of a career in which the domination of a strange but imperious destiny has manitested itself in the transformation of a country doctor into a Professor, a Surgeon-General, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and the transference of the scene of his labors from the swamps of Carolina to the shores of the Chesapeake, the borders of the Nile and the quartiers of the Seine". Illustrated. 613 pages, with appendices.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Only. more information

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Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., 1975. "The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer" - biography of this revolutionary reformer of treatment for the mentally ill, and Civil War nurse administrator.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. more information

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Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889. Dark green binding decorated with gilt-lettering and gilt US Sanitary Commission logo (front) and gilt military medal (rear). Only very minor edgewear, minor foxing on endpapers, rear inner hinge starting to crack - making this a beautiful and scarce First Edition copy of this Civil War nursing classic examining the "Other Side of War with the Army of the Potomac", based upon the "letters from the Headquarters of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862". Black and white photo illustrations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. more information

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NY: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. Experiences of Northern women in the Civil War, at home and on the battlefield with the Union Army - as civilians, nurses, with the transport service, with the Christian and Sanitary Commissions, etc. Also notes the changing roles of women as a result of the war, and contains biographical notes on several noted Women of the War. Cover is lightly faded.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. more information

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