This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton (repost)
Jane E. Schultz, "This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton"
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN 10: 019539268X | 2010 | PDF | 352 pages | 3.6 MB
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN 10: 019539268X | 2010 | PDF | 352 pages | 3.6 MB
After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp Hospital Association and made the widowed Eaton its relief agent in the field. One of many Christians who believed that patriotic activism could redeem the nation, Eaton quickly learned that war was no respecter of religious principles.