| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2 | The History Cooperative

Jane E. Schultz. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 360. $34.95.
In this thorough, insightful, and carefully written history, Jane E. Schultz sifts through literally thousands of details about the many women who worked on behalf of soldiers, North and South, during the Civil War. Building upon and challenging existing scholarship, she draws forward (to the extent that sources allow) not only the privileged white volunteers, over whom a fuss was made subsequently, but the black and white working-class cooks, laundresses, and matrons who made possible the recuperation and recovery of so many men.	1
The book is divided into two parts. "On Duty" establishes a social history of the war years, beginning with the sheer numbers and kinds of jobs and hospitals, following with a look at how hospital workers got to their posts, how long and under what conditions they stayed there, and the ways in which they had to adjust and accommodate to the conditions, both material and social. The second part, "The Legacy of War Work," moves from social to cultural history by analyzing the development of a usable past, a "triumphal narrative of war" (p. 237). Instead of an epilogue, Schultz ends with a very comprehensive historiographic essay, a boon to historians reeling from the flood of new work on women in the Civil War.	. . .

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