From 1862 to 1865 Phoebe Pember served as matron of a division of Chimborazo hospital in besieged Richmond. This hospital was the largest ever built in the Western Hemisphere.Phoebe's account of her experiences there is written with merciless realism tempered with humor. She tells of the scandals, the gossip, the greed and the selfishness,along with the courage and the needless suferring of the wounded soldiers in that dark age of medicene.
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