Angels of the Battlefield - Medical Heroes on the Civil War Frontlines
Firsthand Voices of Nursing, Healing, and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil WarBy Susie King Taylor, Louisa May Alcott, William E. Barton, C. T. Quintard, George Barton, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Phoebe Yates Pember, Myrta Lockett Avary, Frederick Law Olmsted, Fannie A. Beers
Length95h 30m
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Angels of the Battlefield gathers Civil War writings that illuminate medicine as both an emergency practice and a moral crucible. Through memoir, reportage, recollection, and eyewitness testimony, the volume ranges from intimate accounts of nursing and hospital routine to searching descriptions of military sanitation, suffering, and survival. Its selections reveal the frontlines not only as sites of combat but as improvised worlds of care, where courage was measured in endurance, skill, and compassion. Vivid scenes of overcrowded wards, battlefield relief, and contested ideas of duty give the collection unusual historical and literary force. The contributors—nurses, soldiers, chaplains, physicians, reform-minded observers, and civilian witnesses—bring markedly different social positions to the experience of war. Figures associated with Union and Confederate relief efforts, abolitionist-era reform, military medicine, and women's expanding public roles collectively complicate simplified narratives of Civil War heroism. Their voices situate healing within the era's conflicts over race, gender, citizenship, religion, and national allegiance, while preserving the practical knowledge born of wartime service. This volume is especially recommended for readers of Civil War history, medical humanities, and American life writing. It offers a valuable opportunity to compare perspectives across regions and occupations, tracing how individual testimony becomes a larger dialogue about trauma, ethical responsibility, and humanitarian action. Rich in educational insight and stylistic variety, it invites sustained reflection on those who cared for the wounded amid national catastrophe.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length95 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Compassion under Fire: Heroes of Healing in the Civil War (A 10-Book Collection)
2Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
3PREFACE
4INTRODUCTION
5LETTER FROM COL. C. T. TROWBRIDGE
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6I A BRIEF SKETCH OF MY ANCESTORS
7II MY CHILDHOOD
8III ON ST. SIMON'S ISLAND 1862
9IV CAMP SAXTON--PROCLAMATION AND BARBECUE 1863
10V MILITARY EXPEDITIONS, AND LIFE IN CAMP
11VI ON MORRIS AND OTHER ISLANDS
12VII CAST AWAY
13VIII A FLAG OF TRUCE
14IX CAPTURE OF CHARLESTON
15X MUSTERED OUT
16XI AFTER THE WAR
17XII THE WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS
18XIII THOUGHTS ON PRESENT CONDITIONS
19XIV A VISIT TO LOUISIANA
20APPENDIX
21A LIST OF THE BATTLES FOUGHT BY THE THIRTY-THIRD U. S. COLORED TROOPS, FORMERLY FIRST S. C. VOLUNTEERS.
22Hospital Sketches
23Biography of Louisa May Alcott
24CHAPTER I. GENEALOGY AND PARENTAGE.
25CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.
26CHAPTER III. FRUITLANDS.
27CHAPTER IV. THE SENTIMENTAL PERIOD.
28CHAPTER V. AUTHORSHIP.
29CHAPTER VI. THE YEAR OF GOOD LUCK.
30CHAPTER VII. HOSPITAL SKETCHES.
31CHAPTER VIII. EUROPE AND LITTLE WOMEN.
32CHAPTER IX. EUROPE.
33CHAPTER X. FAMILY CHANGES.
34CHAPTER XI. LAST YEARS.
35CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.
36Civil War Memoirs – The Hospital Sketches
37CHAPTER I OBTAINING SUPPLIES.
38CHAPTER II A FORWARD MOVEMENT.
39CHAPTER III A DAY.
40CHAPTER IV A NIGHT.
41CHAPTER V OFF DUTY.
42CHAPTER VI A POSTSCRIPT.
43The Life of Clara Barton, the Founder of the American Red Cross
44Volume 1 (pt. 1)
45Volume 1 (pt. 2)
46Volume 1 (pt. 3)
47Volume 1 (pt. 4)
48Volume 1 (pt. 5)
49Volume 2 (pt. 1)
50Volume 2 (pt. 2)
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