A young Charleston widow, Pember became a matron at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, one of the largest military hospitals of the Civil War. She writes with dry wit about fighting surgeons and stewards over the whiskey barrel, nursing dying soldiers, battling plague-like rats and keeping a kitchen running as the Confederacy starved, through to the fall of Richmond.
A vivid, unsentimental memoir of wartime nursing, told from a Confederate woman’s point of view. Download the free EPUB.