Boys in White; the experience of a hospital agent in and around Washington, DC
New York: Lange and Hillman, 1870. Hardcover. vii, 268p, 5 x 7.5 inches, illus., brown cloth binding faded with some discoloration and shelfworn brown cloth-bound boards with beveled edges and some fraying at spine ends, stamped in gilt and a hospital tent scene in gilt on the front board, tissue guard covering frontispiece portrait of Wheelock, minor internal creasing otherwise in good condition.
Julia S. Wheelock Freeman (1833 - 1900), a Michigan native, spent three years in Washington, DC nursing injured Civil War veterans as a volunteer with the Michigan Soldiers Relief Association. The US House of Representatives recognized Wheelock Freeman for her service as "a brave woman, a patriot in the highest sense of the term." Memoir of author's experiences as a nurse from 1862-1865 in Washington, D.C. including the death of her brother. Boys in white is a reference to the way the soldiers' bodies were prepared for burial.
Cat.No: 343270
Price: $35.00