Hospital Sketches (1863)

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Hospital Sketches (1863)
by Louisa May Alcott

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Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown.Warning: template has been deprecated.

Transcription is of the first edition, which was published in 1863.

1611076Hospital Sketches1863Louisa May Alcott

HOSPITAL SKETCHES.

BY

L. M. ALCOTT.

"Which, naming no names, no offence could be took."— Sairy Gamp.

BOSTON:

JAMES REDPATH, Publisher,

221 Washington Street.

1863.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

JAMES REDPATH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

THESE SKETCHES

ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

TO HER FRIEND

MISS HANNAH STEVENSON,

BY

L. M. A.

PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.

A considerable portion of this volume was published in successive numbers of The Commonwealth, newspaper, of Boston. The sudden popularity the Sketches won from the general public, and the praise they received from literary men of distinguished ability, are sufficient reasons,—were any needed,—for their republication, thus revised and enlarged, in this more convenient and permanent form. As, besides paying the Author the usual copyright, the publisher has resolved to devote at least five cents for every copy sold to the support of orphans made fatherless or homeless by the war, no reproduction of any part of the contents now first printed in these pages, will be permitted in any journal. Should the sale of the little book be large, the orphans' percentage will be doubled.

Boston, August, 1863.

CONTENTS.

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Chapter I. Obtaining Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		10
Chapter II. A Forward Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		21
Chapter III. A Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		31
Chapter IV. A Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		46
Chapter V. Off Duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		64
Chapter VI. A Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		84

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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