num_pages: 140
description: Abridged and annotated.Considered one of the lesser known heroes of the Civil War Julia Susan Wheelock's diary is a searing honest compassionate look at America's great disaster. Traveling to the south when notified of her brother's injury in battle she arrived too late to care for him. But she stayed to nurse thousands more. She met Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Clara Barton and others of note during the war. She wrote letters for and held the hands of dying young men. She reminds us that soldiers are not the only ones who suffer in war. Julia was inducted into the Michigan Womens Hall of Fame in October 2002 Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable well-formatted book for e-readers tablets and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
language: English
title: The Boys in White
publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS