JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
McClellan Hospital, an officer's ward, number 12, photographed in the same manner as the famous ' Armory Hospital, Ward K ' and ' Alexandria Rest Home ', crowded ward- but a brand, new heart stopping and astonishing peek inside every day life at one of these. Some nurses, like Mary Keen ( she's coming.... ) spent from 1861 to 1865 in these quiet places, after the shooting stopped.
Researching where our Civil War nurses, ' Angels ' by too many descriptions to require a source ( much less 100's ) spent their war years, there is frustratingly little. And it is important. We have their words in the form of collections, journals, letters and a few, era newspaper articles. Louisa May Alcott barely survived her determination to volunteer in a Washington, DC hospital but wrote of her experiences so adroitly we almost do not notice the lack of illustrations. Of these there are few- war's aftermath, from inside hospitals. we have few photographs of hospitals themselves compared to how many many hospitals sprang up as first shots became first casualties- then first floods of wounded.
Couldn't help a close up. It's a little mandatory when riveted inside History.
Some are brand, new to me and boy have I seen a few. Library of Congress must be adding to a digital collection already so valuable to this country we've mistakenly put guards around Fort Knox instead of guarding the real treasures.
SO Cont'd.......