Gentle Annie

Gentle Annie

The True Story of a Civil War Nurse

by Mary Francis Shura
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Mass market paperback, 184 pages
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Historical Setting: American Civil War (1860-1865)

Historical fact and fiction combine in this "fictionalized biography" of a girl who grew up to be a Civil War nurse. Anna Blair Etheridge became a nurse for the Union Army shortly before her 17th birthday. Her story is told through recollections found in letters and journals of the soldiers she nursed.

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