In 1862, Louisa May Alcott decided she would do her duty for the Union effort on the Civil War and volunteered to become a nurse. She eventually found herself at an army hospital in Georgetown, part of Washington, D.C. She wrote letters to her family in Massachusetts, describing her experiences. And eventually, the letters became the basis for Hospital Sketches, published in 1863.
You would expect an account of Civil War hospital experiences to be extremely serious. And for the most part, Hospital Sketches is. But it is also laugh-out-loud funny, especially in the early chapters.
to continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Book Review: The Civil War Memoirs of Captain Will J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger – Michael Hardy at Emerging Civil War.
The Night the Buses Died – story by Etgar Keret ay Alphabet Soup.
Bead & fountain – poem by Ian Pople at New Criterion.
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