Hospital Sketches (Esprios Classics)

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. Tribulation Periwinkle opens the story by complaining I want something to do. She dismisses suggestions to write a book teach get married or start acting. When her younger brother suggests she go nurse the soldiers she immediately responds I will! After substantial hardship in trying to obtain a spot she has further difficulty finding a place on the train. She then describes her travel through New York Philadelphia and Baltimore en route to Washington DC.