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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927.

[ South after Gettysburg]

"Letters of a Civil War nurse": Cornelia Hancock, 1863- 1865 /; edited by
Henrietta Stratton Jaquette; introduction to the Bison books edition by Jean V. Berlin
.

p. cm.

"Reprinted from the 1971 edition, titled South after Gettysburg: letters of
Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865, by Books for
Libraries Press, Freeport, N.Y."--T.p. verso.

ISBN 0-8032-7312-6 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927--Correspondence. 2. Nurses--United
States--Correspondence. 3. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-
1865--Medical care. 4. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--
Personal narratives. 5. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--
Women. I. Jaquette, Henrietta Stratton, b. 1881. II. Title.

E621.H29 1998

973.7'75--dc21

98-10011 CIP

Reprinted from the 1971 edition, titled South After Gettysburg: Letters of
Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac 1863-1865, by Books for
Libraries Press, Freeport NY.

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