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From 1862 to 1865 Phoebe Pember served as matron of a division of Chimborazo Hospital, the largest built in the Western Hemisphere, in besieged Richmond. Phoebe recounts her experiences of gossip, greed, and selfishness as well as courage and the suffering of the wounded soldiers in that dark age of medicine.Pember, Phoebe Y. is the author of 'A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond' with ISBN 9780891760245 and ISBN 0891760245.
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