num_pages: 96
description: This is Alcott's account of her experiences as a nurse during the Civil War in a Washington D.C. hospital. The sketches are taken "from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life," and so maintain the immediacy and force of their author.
language: English
title: Hospital Sketches
titlecomplete: Hospital Sketches (Applewood Books)
genres: Historical, Biography, War, Civil War, Memoir, Nonfiction, Classics, 19th Century, American Civil War, History
ratings_count: 2180
publisher: Applewood Books