Hospital Sketches From The Civil War

Reproduction of the original: Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

Written by the author of Little Women during the winter of 1862–63, these memoirs reveal the realities of battlefield medicine as well as the tentative first steps of women in military service.

This early work by Louisa May Alcott was originally published in 1863 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Alcott, watched men go off to war from her home town and wrote in her diary, " as I can't fight, I will content myself to help those who can." On her 30th birthday she went to Washington D. C. to sign up as a nurse. She spent 6 weeks serving in a field hospital and what came out of it were this slightly fictionalized and highly successful sketches of what she had seen.

An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.

Louis May Alcott, best known for her novel "Little Women", wrote this before that time when she was working as a nurse in a hospital during the American Civil War. The book vividly describes the conditions in those hospitals and is an interesting insight into the social and cultural mores of that time.

An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War.