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26 de feb. de 2016 · Learn how Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, volunteered as a nurse in Washington during the Civil War and wrote about her experiences in Hospital Sketches. Discover how her service shaped her career, her health, and her views on the war.
Louisa’s Civil War. FROM CHAPTER ELEVEN: I’ve Often Longed to See a War. Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, by Harriet Reisen. By 1862, as she approached her thirtieth birthday Louisa was restless, and hungry for adventure before it was too late. “Decided to go to Washington as a nurse if I could find a place,” she wrote ...
En la Guerra de Secesión fue enfermera en el Hospital de la Unión, en Georgetown, Washington D. C., durante seis semanas entre 1862 y 1863. Murió en Boston el 6 de marzo de 1888 a causa de las secuelas del envenenamiento por mercurio contraído durante su servicio en la guerra, el mismo día en que su padre era sepultado.
When the Civil War started in 1861, Alcott served as a nurse in a Union hospital. Unfortunately, in the middle of her assignment she contracted typhoid fever. Her experience in the hospital as a patient and a nurse, inspired the novel Hospital Sketches .
During the Civil War, Alcott shifted her talents from writing to nursing from the war’s onset in 1861. Initially, Alcott completed simple tasks such as sewing Union uniforms and tending to minor soldier needs.
7 de ene. de 2015 · Louisa May Alcott, Civil War nurse, was 500 miles from her home in Concord, Mass., alone, doing painful duties all day long and yet constantly excited. She had volunteered as a Union nurse at Union Hotel Hospital in Georgetown. She called it the ‘hurly burly hotel.’
29 de nov. de 2023 · It was this dedication to seeing the end of slavery that largely propelled Louisa May Alcott’s commitment to the Union war effort. At first, her support was simple — sewing and mending Federals’ uniforms or tending to their minor needs. But her desire to contribute to the cause grew...
