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Weekly Whitman: “The Dresser”
Just what did Walt Whitman do in the hospitals where he worked? He was a wound dresser. The duties of the wound dresser—always a man, unless the emergency was dire—were to change bandages, hydrate wounds or operation sites, turn patients … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Medical, Personalities
Tagged "The Dresser", Civil War Hospital, Walt Whitman, weekly-whitman
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Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “Our hospital cares and labors made fast friends of many of us” (Part 17)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin It’s Week 17 of our read-along with extra historical notes and images. If you want to catch up on the … Continue reading
Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “Many of whom had just been liberated from bondage” (Part 16)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin It’s Week 16 of our read-along with extra historical notes and images. If you want to catch up on the … Continue reading
Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “The Familiar Sound of Cannonading” (Part 15)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin It’s Week 15 of our read-along with extra historical notes and images. If you want to catch up on the … Continue reading
Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “A Wide Field For Willing Hearts” (Part 9)
Apologies for this post note appearing over the weekend! As you’ve probably noticed, we had some special and time-sensitive posts over Memorial Day, so the editing team decided to move this post into the early week. In Hospital and Camp, … Continue reading
Bucklin’s Hospital & Camp: “So Long As Battles Were Fought” (Part 4)
In Hospital and Camp, A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War by Sophronia E. Bucklin It’s Week 4 of our read-along. If you want to catch up on the chapter notes, just click here for … Continue reading
Limb Pit at Manassas National Battlefield Continues to Show the Horrors of Civil War Medicine
After over 150 years, the Civil War is still one of the mostly widely studied historical moments in history with new discoveries continuously being made. Recently one of these extraordinary finds took place while workers were digging at a construction … Continue reading
The Yankee Soldier and the Belles of “Secession Proclivities”
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson With mid-February approaching, I went hunting for a North-South romance story to share on Valentine’s Day. In his well-researched study of Northern troops, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier … Continue reading
ECW Weekender: Ben Lomond Historic Site
Emerging Civil War welcomes guest author Paige Gibbons Backus A mile away from the Manassas National Battlefield, hidden amongst suburbia and shopping centers, stands Ben Lomond Historic Site, a pre-war Virginia plantation house managed by Prince William County’s Historic Preservation Division. … Continue reading
Author & Nurse: The Woman Who Wrote “Hospital Sketches”
With the new PBS series Mercy Street starting last weekend, there is a new heightened interest in Civil War medicine and nurses. We hope you enjoy this blog about a real woman who travelled to Washington D.C. and volunteered as … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Medical, Personalities
Tagged Civil War Hospital, Louisa May Alcott
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