Hospital Sketches 4.6.59

Hospital Sketches - These sketches, taken from letters hastily written in the few leisure moments of a very busy life, make no pretension to literary merit, but are simply a brief record of one person's hospital experience. As such, they are republished, with their many faults but partially amended, lest in retouching they should lose whatever force or freshness the inspiration of the time may have given them. To those who have objected to a "tone of levity" in some portions of the sketches, I desire to say that the wish to make the best of every thing, and send home cheerful reports even from that saddest of scenes, an army hospital, probably prduced the impression of levity upon those who have never knows the sharp contrasts of the tragic and comic in such a life. The unexpected favor with which the little book was greeted, and the desire for new edition, increase the author's regret that it is not more worthy of such a kind reception.

 

Hospital Sketches is a personal account of the time Louisa May Alcott spent in a Washington millitary hospital. The book takes an insight from her experience and observations into a soldiers life and the conditions faced in a Georgetown millitary hospital during the Civil War in 1863.

 

Hospital Sketches - "Hospital Sketches" by Louisa May Alcott is about her time spent at Georgetown Hospital in 1863. She talks about the many wounded soldiers the Louisa actually met. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.