Civil War
Cornelia Hancock’s Civil War: A Q & A with Caroline Ivanoff
Several years ago, I wrote a book about nurses in the American Civil War. It looked at the story of civil war nurses as a group, told through the experiences of individual women. One of my favorites, was a young Quaker woman named Cornelia Hancock, who made her way to Gettysburg as a volunteer nurse.…
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From the Archives: Walking Hallowed Ground
Recently My Own True Love and I were at dinner with friends and the conversation turned to the Gallipoli campaign in World War I . [1] The next day he requested that I run this post again. It originally ran in 2011, when History in the Margins was brand-new. I think it holds up. In…
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From the Archives: Cornelia Hancock–Civil War Nurse, Reformer, Muse
Dear Marginalia: As some of you may remember, ten years ago I wrote a book on Civil War Nurses called Heroines of Mercy Street: Real Nurses of the Civil War. Right now I have Civil War nurses on my mind again as I prepare to give talk on the subject at the historical museum in…
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