This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton
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After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital Association and made the widowed Eaton its relief agent in the field. One of many Christians who believed that patriotic activism could redeem the nation, Eaton quickly learned that war was...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199899541
ISBN13:9780199899548
Release Date:May 2012
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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