Compassion under Fire: Heroes of Healing in the Civil War (A 10-Book Collection)
Ten Firsthand Accounts of Nursing, Medicine, and Mercy During 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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Compassion under Fire: Heroes of Healing in the Civil War gathers ten vivid accounts of caregiving amid the United States' most devastating nineteenth-century conflict. Spanning memoir, reminiscence, reportage, medical observation, and wartime narrative, the collection charts the improvised hospitals, battlefield relief networks, domestic labors, and moral crises that sustained soldiers and civilians alike. Its standout scenes of nursing under bombardment, confronting disease, and organizing scarce supplies reveal healing as both practical work and ethical resistance to war's dehumanization. The contributors represent a striking cross-section of Civil War witnesses: nurses, relief workers, military chaplains, observers, and writers whose experiences emerged from Union institutions, Confederate communities, and the broader culture of reform and humanitarian service. Their diverse social positions and regional allegiances illuminate how gender, faith, class, race, and military discipline shaped the meaning of care. Together, these voices belong to the rich tradition of Civil War testimony that transformed private recollection into public history and expanded understandings of women's and civilians' wartime agency. This volume is especially rewarding for readers of Civil War history, medical humanities, and nineteenth-century literature. It offers an uncommon opportunity to compare perspectives and prose styles within one carefully framed archive, while tracing the dialogue between suffering, service, and survival. Readers will find both substantial historical instruction and a moving meditation on compassion under extreme conditions.
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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
1THEODORE ROOSEVELT Boxed Set (Annotated)
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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