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Posted: Thu Sep 6th, 2012 03:23 pm

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Mana:

Thanks for asking about my book. Battlefield Angels tells the story of women whom both the Confederate and Union governments sought out at the beginning of the Civil War to help care for sick and wounded soldiers. Why? Because the Daughters of Charity were the only trained nurses in the country in 1861. They had been caring for patients since 1823 and running hospitals across the country.

The book profiles some of the key sisters while following the Daughters of Charity onto the battlefields, into hospitals, onto riverboats and into prison camps as they worked to keep soldiers alive and healthy in most of the states where fighting occurred during the Civil War.

The book draws heavily on letters the sisters wrote about their experiences after the war. It also uses doctors' and soldiers' journals, newspapers and an unpublished nursing manual that one of the sisters wrote.

I hope you like the book. Let me know what you think.