Timeline
Lifetime:
1823 -
1913
Passed: ≈
111 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Phoebe Yates Pember
Books by Phoebe Yates Pember
Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron
History
Memoir
War
Civil War
Virginia
Richmond
Confederate
Evacuation
Hospital Life
Female Administrator
Prisoner Exchange
Burning
"Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron" is a vivid account of hospital life during the Civil War, as told by Phoebe Yates Pember, a Confederate matron who oversaw a dietary kitchen serving meals to over 300 wounded soldiers daily. Pembe...