Hospital Sketches (1863) is a compilation of four sketches based on letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the six weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown.
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John's death is a testament to courage and bravery. Alcott’s choice of making a nurse of Tribulation is very symbolic, for the strong manly soldiers, under her charge, were as needy and dependent on her as children. This conveys the truth that...
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