Description: Through newspapers and official records, as well as letters, diaries, and memoirs--not only those of the remarkable and dedicated women who participated, but of the doctors with whom they served, their soldier patients, and the patients' families--a comprehensive picture of what it was like to be a nurse in the South during the Civil War emerges.
Review Quotes:
Worth a Dozen Men is prodigiously researched, fills a gap in the historiography, and makes numerous contributions to the literature. The author's arguments are sound, original, and significant.
--Elizabeth Varon, University of Virginia