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September, 2005
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Women at the Front
Hospital Workers in Civil War America

By Jane E. Schultz
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 360. Illustrations, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

In Women at the Front Jane E. Schultz significantly enriches the scholarship surrounding women nurses of the Civil War. Her ambitious study of Union and Confederate caregivers dispels traditional myths that portray these women as superhuman, self-sacrificing embodiments of white middle-class morality. In the first part of her work, Schultz establishes the broad panorama of women's experiences as hospital workers. In the second, she examines how wartime experiences affected women in the aftermath of the conflict. Schultz traces women's adjustments to peacetime society, their struggles for pensions, and finally, the vast array of their narratives. . . .
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