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| Posted: Wed Sep 5th, 2012 06:01 pm |
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PBS will be showing a new documentary called "Death and the Civil War" by Ric Burns (Ken Burns' brother). I was asked to preview the documentary and you can see what I thought about it at: http://historyarchive.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/coming-on-pbs-death-and-the-civil-war The post also contains a link to the PBS so you can view when your local station will show it. James Rada, Jr. Author ofBattlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses
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| Posted: Wed Sep 5th, 2012 08:57 pm |
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I think Gilpin's book may have been the inspiration for the series. I had started to read the book as research for an upcoming project, but I got detoured onto a different project so I didn't get to finish it. However, the "good death" philosophy you mention is talked about in the documentary, too. As for my book, yes, it is available on Amazon, B&N and other places.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 6th, 2012 03:23 pm |
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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 It also uses doctors' and soldiers' journals, newspapers and an unpublished nursing manual that one of the sisters wrote.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.
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