Title: Civil War Nurse, Civil War Nursing: Rebecca Usher of Maine
Abstract:Rebecca Usher of Hollis, Maine:[Mrs.Preble] of Portland . . .mentions your name as one of the ladies who went from Maine, and who were devoted and persistent in their labors for the soldiers.Two of th...Rebecca Usher of Hollis, Maine:[Mrs.Preble] of Portland . . .mentions your name as one of the ladies who went from Maine, and who were devoted and persistent in their labors for the soldiers.Two of the ladies . . .have favored me with an account in brief of what was done, and of the hospital scenes and incidents that fell under their observation. . . .... I should like very much to receive from you . . .such incidents as fell under your observation while out, as well as a brief statement of your own history, in that connexion, the time of going out, the hospitals where you were the most of the time engaged, and some account of your daily round of occupations. . . .No more prominence will be given to your name than you may indicate as desireable; my object being as much to give a view of the general labor of women in this great field, as to eulogize particular heroines.1 Moore's letter to Usher was one of many he sent out shortly after the Civil War to women whose responses he hoped would serve as the basis for his bulky commemorative, Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Read More
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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