Endnotes
1. John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), 263-265.
2. Ibid.
3. Susan Cheever, American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 170.
4. Elizabeth D. Leonard, Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994), 7; James M. McPherson, “Women and Medical Care” in Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 3rd ed., (New York: McGraw Hill, 2001), 422-424.
5. McPherson, 424.
6. Jan Turnquist, “Introduction.” In Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War, (Roseville, Minnesota: Edinborough Press, 2007), ix.
7. Cheever, 171; Alcott, Civil War Journals, 22.
8. Jan Turnquist, “Introduction.” In Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War, (Roseville, Minnesota: Edinborough Press, 2007), ix; Cheever, 171; Alcott, Civil War Journals, 22.
9. Matteson, 271-272.
10. Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 1863 in Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War, (Roseville, Minnesota: Edinborough Press, 2007), 43.
11. Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1968), 103.
12. Turnquist, xxv; Schultz, 80.
13. Alcott, Civil War Journals, 23.
14. Alcott, Civil War Journals, 22; Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 58-59; Matteson, 274-275; McPherson, 416-417.
15. Matteson, 275; Cheever, 172; McPherson, 328-329; Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 60-61.
16. Elbert, 154; Matteson, 275-276. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 67 - 68.
17. Matteson, 275; Cheever, 172; McPherson, 328-329; Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 60-61.
18. Elbert, 154; Matteson, 275-276. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 67 - 68.
19. Matteson, 277; Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 77.
20. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 69; Louisa May Alcott, Civil War Journals, 28.
21. Miegs, 103 - 103; Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 84 - 87.
22. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 88-89.
23. Schultz, 133, 103-104.
24. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, 96; Schultz, 85-86.
25. Matteson, 280-283.
26. Schultz, 223; Stern, xxiv, xxv; Turnquist, xli, xliii, xxv.
27. Schultz, 223, 228, 239.
28. Turnquist, xliii-xliv.