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Brockett, L.P., fl. 1867 Woman's work in the Civil War : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.232 Author/Creator: Brockett, L.P., fl. 1867 Place Written: Chicago, Illinois Type: Book Date: 1867 Pagination: 799 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 16.1 cm Order a Copy

Co-authored by Mary C. Vaughan. Biographies of: Dorothea L. Dix, Clara Barton, Helen L. Gibson, Mrs. John Harris, Mrs. Eliza C. Porter, Mary A. Bickerdyke, Mrs. Stephen Barker, Amy M. Bradley, Arabella G. Barlow, Nellie M. Taylor, Mrs. Adaline Tyler, Mrs. William H. Holstein, Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey, Sarah R. Johnston, Emily E. Parsons, Almira Fales, Cornelia Hancock, Mary M. Husband, Katherine P. Wormeley, The Misses Woolsey, Anna M. Ross, G.T.M. Davis, Mary J. Safford, Lydia G. Parrish, Annie Wittenmeyer, Melcenia Elliott, Mary D. Pettes, Louisa Maertz, Harriet R. Colfax, Clara Davis, R.H. Spencer, Harriet F. Hawley, Ellen E. Mitchell, Jessie Home, Miss Vance/Miss Blackmar, H.A. Dada and S.E. Hall, Sarah Edson, Maria M.C. Hall, A.H. Gibbons, E.J. Russell, Mary W. Lee, Cornelia M. Tompkins, Anna C.McMeens, Jerusha R. Small, S.A. Martha Canfield, Issabella Fogg, Barbara Frietchie, Hospital Transport Service, Hospital Corps at the Naval Academy Hospital

Brockett, L.P., fl. 1867

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