Heroines of Mercy Street
Subtitle: the real nurses of the Civil War
By: Pamela D. Toler, PhD. ; foreword by Ridley Scott
Contributors: Scott, Ridley, author of foreword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780316392075
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Nurses; Medical care; Biography; History
Other titles: Mercy Street (Television program)
Description: "Tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia hotel turned wartime hospital, and the setting for the PBS show Mercy Street"--
Notes: "Companion to Mercy Street on PBS"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dorothea Dix goes to war; title: The army is unprepared; title: Volunteers; title: Nurses on the hospital transport ships; title: Arriving at Mansion House Hospital; title: Learning by experience; title: Becoming indispensable; title: Leaving Mansion House Hospital; title: Reporting back to duty; title: After the war; title: Afterword : a different viewpoint.