With Courage and Delicacy

By Nancy Scripture Garrison,

Book cover of With Courage and Delicacy: Civil War on the Peninsula: Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission

Book description

Civil War on the Peninsula: Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The U.S. Sanitary Commission was a volunteer medical and relief organization during the Civil War, in which women played a significant role. The author draws on the letters of women serving in McClellan's Peninsula campaign of 1862 to integrate…

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This book captures the work of the little-known U.S. Sanitary Commission, the pre-cursor to the Red Cross, and its influence during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. Women nurses were the lifeblood of the hospital transports that saved hundreds of lives.

From Jocelyn's list on women nurses during the Civil War.

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