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A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond
A Southern Woman's Story Life in Confederate Richmond Author:Phobe Yates Pember Douglas Southall Freeman, distinguished author of Lee's Lieutenants, called Mrs Pember's book one of the finest of Confederate memoirs. Her account as matron of Chimborazo Hospital in besieged Richmond is written with merciless realism. She tells the scandals, the gossip, the greed and selfishness, along with the self-sa... more »crifice and valor, and needless suffering of soldiers and civilians in that dark age of medicine.« less