A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot

A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot

“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did little actual nursing—that was the job of soldiers, many of them wounded, or of lower-class women. Instead, she supervised patient care. She was also there to supply womanly sympathy and religious consolation. Accompanied to Charlottesville by her maid, Bacot generally paid no more attention to slaves than to furniture. Her diary alternates between grim descriptions of the hospital and cheerful descriptions of her social life. A dutiful daughter of South Carolina, Bacot went to war not to escape the constraints of a Southern woman's role, but to fulfill them in womanly service. References - pages 187-188.”

Ada W. (Ada White) Bacot

University of South Carolina Press

1994

English

Book

Ada W. (Ada White) Bacot

A Confederate Nurse: the diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863

Columbia

University of South Carolina Press

1994

978-0-87249-970-6

Book

OCLC: 28633442

English

OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch

199

Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South; Variation: Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South.

A Confederate nurse