"Provides a testament to the enormous and wide-ranging contributions made by Union women and suggests how these women began to undermine traditional conceptions of womanhood."--Nina Silber When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one of a handful of women to achieve national prominence and a position of leadership within the Commission. Her efforts-from nursing wounded soldiers at the front to organizing the Sanitary Fairs that raised more than a million dollars for relief work-earned the respect of Grant, Sherman, and Lincoln. My Story of the War presents Livermore's remarkable war experiences, including personal reminiscences of Grant, Lincoln, "Mother" Bickerdyke, and Dorothea Dix; and chronicles the vast and varied wartime activities of women-their work as nurses, their agricultural labors, and even their military contributions. In a vivid, anecdotal style Livermore reveals the everyday operations of military hospitals while preserving the individual stories of healers, soldiers, patients, and refugees. Superbly designed, generous in its use of soldiers' letters, and supplemented by illustrations and histories of nearly fifty Union and Confederate regimental flags, My Story of the War appeals to a broad range of Civil War enthusiasts, but stands most firmly as an invaluable testament to women's power to carve out an impressive sphere of influence behind the lines and at the front.

My Story Of The War: The Civil War Memoirs Of The Famous Nurse, Relief Organizer, And Suffragette

Biographies & Memoirs

Livermore, Mary A.

Community & Culture

Da Capo

My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of 4 Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army (American Women: Images and Realities)

History

Americas

Ayer Co. Pub

Hardcover; Good; Dark blue cloth cover with silver printing on the spine. Very attractive. Spine is tight and only marks are library. Very nice copy of this book.

My Story of the War: A Womens Narrative of Four Years

Leaders & Notable People

Corner House Pub

My Story of the War

Nabu Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

My Story Of The War: A Woman's Narrative Of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse In The Union Army

Kessinger Publishing

Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Annotated)

Historical

Independently published

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864–1922), also known as Nellie Bly, was an American industrialist, journalist, charity worker, and inventor famous for her 72-day trip around the world in the footsteps of the fictional Phileas Fogg. She is also remembered for her exposé working undercover in a mental institute, which led to a new style of investigative journalism. In her 1888 travelogue, Seaman recounts her time spent travelling around Mexico, offering insights into all aspects of Mexican life from manners and methods of courtship to politics, history, geography, and beyond. Contents include: “Adieu to the United States”, “El Paso Del Norte”, “Along the Route”, “The City of Mexico”, “In the Streets of Mexico”, “How Sunday is Celebrated”, “A Horseback Ride Over Historic Grounds”, “A Mexican Bull-Fight”, “The Museum and its Curiosities”, etc. Read & Co. Travel is republishing this classic travelogue now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.

Six Months in Mexico: And Other Investigative Journalism Articles

Bly, Nellie

Willard, Frances E.

Read & Co. Travel

Mary Ashton Livermore was more than just a nurse for the Union Army.  She was an educator, a writer and suffragette. When named co-director of the Chicago branch of the United States Sanitary Commission, Livermore not only tended the wounded, she raised money and supplies for the Sanitary Commission and edited their monthly bulletins, using these to communicate with its four thousand Aid Societies. During her official travels, she gathered facts and personal stories of individual soldiers and sent these to her husband along with her official reports. He published both, with the “war sketches,” as she called them. Mrs. Livermore’s husband saved all her letters, bulletins, stories and articles.   She had a habit of destroying her papers once a job or task was completed because she didn’t want to carry it with her from place to place.  He kept every article, letter, story and memo from the Army pertaining to Mary and her work, in chronological order.  To this rich history,  she added her letters to and  from friends.  She  draws upon this complete and detailed record to write this story.

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