CIVIL WAR NURSE

The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes

1986

First American Edition, 3rd Printing

By: Hannah Ropes; John R. Brumgardt, Editor

The University of Tennessee Press [Knoxville, TN]

8vo

Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Cream cloth]

Item Number: 6327

$30.00

Description

Matron of the Union Hospital in Georgetown; appalled at the conditions, she went directly to the Secretary of War and forced improvements. She died of pneumonia in 1863. A fine copy, in dust jacket, slightly soiled at top of front cover (149p., frontispiece, notes, biblio., index).