Considered one of the lesser known heroes of the Civil War, Julia Susan Wheelock's diary is a searing, honest, compassionate look at America's great disaster. Traveling to the south when notified of her brother's injury in battle, she arrived too late to care for him. But she stayed to nurse thousands more.She met Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton and others of note during the war. She wrote letters for and held the hands of dying young...
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