Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott

Hospital Sketches

By Louisa May Alcott

  • Release Date: 1888-01-01
  • Genre: U.S. History
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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.