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Women in the Civil War

An excerpt from Hospital Sketches by nurse Louisa May Alcott, 1863.

An excerpt from Hospital Sketches by nurse Louisa May Alcott, 1863.

Citation Information: Alcott, Louisa May, excerpt from “Hospital sketches,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/4bf53ed6e62c49970f981023893a51b8.

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An excerpt from Hospital Sketches by nurse Louisa May Alcott, 1863.

An excerpt from a catalog for the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair, edited by Thomas Izod, circa 1864.

“Two Brave Women” by Josephine Crump, an excerpt from the book Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1907.

An advertisement for the 1876 book The Woman in Battle by Loreta Juaneta Velasquez, who fought for the Confederacy as Harry T. Buford.

The book jacket for Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy by Louis A. Sigaud, published in 1944.

A portrait of Susie King Taylor from her 1902 book Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops.

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