No place for a woman: Harriet Dame's Civil War/ by Mike Pride.

Title:

No place for a woman: Harriet Dame's Civil War/ by Mike Pride.

Author:

Pride, Mike, 1946-2023.

Call Number:

920 D154p

Publication Information:

Kent,OH: The Kent State University Press, 2022.

Physical Description:

264 p.: illustrations; 24.5 cm.

Description:

In June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron. No Place for a Woman recounts her dedicated service through the Civil War. She camped with the regiment on campaign, nursed its wounded after many major battles, and carried out important wartime missions for her state and the Union cause. Late in the 19th century, she battled alongside her friend Dorothea Dix to overcome prejudice against bestowing pensions on women who nursed during the war. Historian Mike Pride traces Harriet Dame's service as a field nurse during the peninsula campaign, Second Bull Run, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor. Twice during that service, Dame was briefly captured. In early 1863, she spent months running a busy enterprise in Washington, DC, that connected families at home to soldiers in the field. Later, at the behest of New Hampshire's governor, she traveled south by ship to check on the care of her state's soldiers in Union hospitals along the coast... No Place for a Woman draws on newly discovered letters written by Harriet Dame and includes many rare photographs of the soldiers who knew Dame best, of the nurses and doctors she worked with, and of dame herself. This biography convincingly argues that in length, depth, and breadth of service, it is unlikely that any woman did more for the Union cause than Harriet Dame.

Subjects:

Military nursing., United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)., United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 .

People:

Dame, Harriet Patience, 1815-1900., Gallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew):

Terms of Use:

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Credit Line:

Gift of Mike Pride; December 2022;