South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865
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Title
South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865
Description
“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the country or the people of the Confederacy. She was certain that Virginia could not compare with her native New Jersey. 1863-1868. a young Quaker who served as a nurse at Gettysburg and in a Washington "contraband hospital," the II Corps Hospital at Brandy Station, and in-field hospitals during the Wilderness and Petersburg campaigns. She provides descriptions of hospital tent suffering, duties, and relates her frustration over the government's unwillingness to make decisions concerning the "contrabands."
Creator
Cornelia Hancock
Publisher
Philadelphia
Date
1937
Type
Book
Zotero
Title
South after Gettysburg; letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865;
Publisher
Philadelphia
Date
1937.
Item Type
Book
Collection
Citation
Cornelia Hancock, “South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865,” The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy , accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.missouri.edu/confederate/items/show/2568.