Helpful Score: 5
This book was a quick read. For buying it on the cheap on paperbackswaps market I am glad to say it was a great deal and I will be buying at least 3 more books from there next week! The books is an unusual one well for me anyways it is about a young woman who works for the army of the Union during the civil war. I am a southerner and have always been and most books I read are of the southern content when it comes to civil war stories. I was very surprised to find a book just exactly the opposite that what I had began to call the norm. Such a captivating book.
The book begins as Mary Sutter the midwife who was given high praise for her cunning for a woman giving birth her real passion is the love of medicine she want's to become a doctor unheard of in those times. She get's her chance when the war begins. Sometimes as I read my southern war novels I think that the union was not as affected by it that they had it easier and didn't lack for all the thing's the Union did not. I was very very wrong the depravity suffered and the horror's she had to witness are almost unspeakable. The tragic love story involving her, her twin sister Jenny, and Thomas is a heart rendering thing as well. One point sticks out in my mind when the river of the Potomac ran red and they said it turned the color of rust and they had no idea what caused it until they found out that there was a huge battle up river and the land could hold no more blood.
She was a willful and stubborn woman who show's us all that a woman is as capable to do the thing's she want's in life as a man is!
The book begins as Mary Sutter the midwife who was given high praise for her cunning for a woman giving birth her real passion is the love of medicine she want's to become a doctor unheard of in those times. She get's her chance when the war begins. Sometimes as I read my southern war novels I think that the union was not as affected by it that they had it easier and didn't lack for all the thing's the Union did not. I was very very wrong the depravity suffered and the horror's she had to witness are almost unspeakable. The tragic love story involving her, her twin sister Jenny, and Thomas is a heart rendering thing as well. One point sticks out in my mind when the river of the Potomac ran red and they said it turned the color of rust and they had no idea what caused it until they found out that there was a huge battle up river and the land could hold no more blood.
She was a willful and stubborn woman who show's us all that a woman is as capable to do the thing's she want's in life as a man is!
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