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Sto caricando le informazioni... Nurse and Spy in the Union Armydi Sarah Emma Edmonds
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As an infantry soldier and "male nurse", Sarah Edmonds chronicles the horrors of Civil War hospitals and the simple pastimes of camp life. Throughout her memoirs, this storyteller reveals her courage, dedication to the Union, and resourcefulness in sustaining her complicated masquerade. Not a historically perfect account of the author's experiences during the Civil War, but it is a very interesting look at her service from her own perspective. Besides that, it is a very interesting window into what life at that time was generally like for the people involved in the war. The author wasn't the most polished writer, but her prose is reasonably clear and easier to read than a lot of other writing from that era. This is a first-person account of a woman who enlisted in the Army of the Potomac in 1861, presenting herself as a man, to serve as a field nurse. She says little about why she did so. She became ill and left the field in 1863, and this was published a year or two later. The book is typical of its time in being heavily padded with lengthy quotations from other published sources, contemporary sentimental poetry, and religious digressions both passionate and naive. It reads as if the chapters were made for periodical serialization: each of the thirty chapters is approximately the same length. Also typical is that it appears to be factually unreliable; but in many cases it's ambiguous whether she's actually claiming to have been somewhere (such as Antietam), or innocently reporting other people's stories. In spite of these flaws, it's more than reasonably well-written and has significant antiquarian interest. For those interested in finding out more about the author herself, there's a modern biography available (The Mysterious Private Thompson, by Laura Leedy Gansler). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiLakeside Classics (book 117)
Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As "Franklin Thompson," she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War, from the first battle of Bull Run to the Kentucky Campaign of 1863. This daring woman embarked upon dangerous missions into Confederate territory to gather information and to survey enemy positions, sometimes in the guise of a slave or Irish washerwoman, sometimes in Confederate uniform. Through her experiences as a "male nurse" and Union soldier, Edmonds depicts the horrors of Civil War hospitals and the simple pastimes of camp life. Throughout her impassioned account, first published in 1865, this enthralling storyteller reveals her courage, dedication to the Union, and resourcefulness in concealing her identity. Three years after her death, Edmonds's body was reinterred with military honors by her comrades, who recognized in her a "strong, healthy, and robust soldier, ever willing and ready for duty." The introduction and annotations by Elizabeth D. Leonard, a leading authority on Civil War women, support and amplify Edmonds's account. Challenging established views of the Civil War soldier, Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy is compelling reading, especially for those interested in the Civil War, women's history, American studies, and military history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.7History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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