South After Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock, Civil War Nurse 1863-1865, Quaker Teacher 1866-1868
New York: Crowell, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, expanded with new material after the original 1936 release. Fine (prev. owner, former Princeton University historian's signature stamp frotn free endpaper. In near fine dust ajcket with a trace of wear at the spine extremities.xii+,288 pp. Foreword by Bruce Catton. The collected letters of Cornelia Hancock (1840-1927), a Quaker native of southern New Jersey who at age 23 in the summer of 1863 left home to join up with the Union Army's Second Corp as a nurse. She helped set up hospitals, rallied morale, gave first aid and caged supplies beginning at Gettysburg, then at the Battle of the Wilderness, White House, Sheridan' raids, and the capture of Richmond. She was friends with many famous Union figures (although she did not approve of "the drunkenness of our Major Generals"). After the War, she established a school for African Americans in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Fine / near fine. Item #E31200
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