South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865

South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865

“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."

Cornelia Hancock

Philadelphia

1937

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Cornelia Hancock

South after Gettysburg; letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865;

Philadelphia

1937.

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