To assist those of you who might be using this website as a tool in historical research, as well as to give credit to the many authors whose work I have studied in creating this website, I have included a list of pertinent literature. Any additions / corrections are welcome!
Cumming, K. (1955). The aftermath of Shiloh. In K.M. Jones (Ed.), Heroines of Dixie: Spring of high hopes (p. 115-125). St. Simon's Island, GA: Mockingbird. (Reprinted from A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the battle of Shiloh to the end of the war, by Kate Cumming, 1866, Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Co.).
Donahue, M.P. (1996). Nursing: The finest art (2nd ed.). Chicago: Mosby.
Fessler, D.B. (1996). No time for fear: Voices of American military nurses in World War II. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University.
Holland, M.G. (1998). Our army nurses. Roseville, MN: Edinborough.
Massey, M.E. (1966). Women in the Civil War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska.
Norman, E. (1990). Women at war: The story of fifty military nurses who served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
Pokorny, M.E. (1992). A historical perspective of Confederate nursing during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Nursing Research, 41 (1), 28-32.
Scannell-Desch, E. (1996). The lived experience of women military nurses in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 28 (2), 168-173.
Smith, W. (1992). American daughter gone to war: On the front lines with an Army nurse in Vietnam. New York: Morrow.
Tomblin, B.B. (1996). G.I. nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II. Lexington, KY: University Press.
Van Devanter, L. & Morgan, C. (1983). Home before morning: The true story of an Army nurse in Vietnam. New York: Warner.
Wiley, B. (Ed.). (1959). A Southern woman's story: Life in Confederate Richmond. St. Simon's Island, GA: Mockingbird.
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