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I liked Louisa May Alcott's writing, it was a decent read. She did not write that much but based on what she did write she provided us with incredible insight to what it took to be a nurse in the Civil War. I loved the line "feeling as if I was the son of the house going to war," because becoming a nurse was the closest women would often get to the battles and showed the prestige that Alcott felt went with being a nurse. Once she made it to her post in Washington she described the wounded and sick men as "all were well behaved," as if she had not expected them to be. -Megan Mc | I liked Louisa May Alcott's writing, it was a decent read. She did not write that much but based on what she did write she provided us with incredible insight to what it took to be a nurse in the Civil War. I loved the line "feeling as if I was the son of the house going to war," because becoming a nurse was the closest women would often get to the battles and showed the prestige that Alcott felt went with being a nurse. Once she made it to her post in Washington she described the wounded and sick men as "all were well behaved," as if she had not expected them to be. -Megan Mc | ||
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| + | I thought that it was interesting in Louisa May Alcott's journal that she attributes 'womanly" qualities to several men at the hospital, "...a heart as warm and tender as a woman's" (the blacksmith) and "Dr. J. haunts the room, coming by day and nighto with wood, cologne, books, ad messes, like a motherly little man as he is." -Will Hechmer | ||
== Mary Livermore, [Northern women on farm during war], 1890 -- Woloch and Major Problems readings. == | == Mary Livermore, [Northern women on farm during war], 1890 -- Woloch and Major Problems readings. == | ||
