Louisa May Alcott: My Memories of the Civil War. Louisa May Alcott

"My Memoirs of the Civil War" is a compilation of sketches, memoirs and letters Louisa May Alcott sent home during the weeks she spent as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War in Georgetown. While serving as a nurse, Alcott wrote letters to her family in Concord. At the urging of others, she prepared them later for publication.