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Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

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Sue Anderson

4 Hours 18 Minutes

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January 2016

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Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseeing a dietary kitchen serving meals to 300 or more wounded soldiers daily. Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital is her vivid recounting of hospital life and of her tribulations (and personal growth) as a female administrator. To follow her from day one, when she is greeted with "ill-repressed disgust" that "one of them had come," and she, herself, "could only understand that the position was one which dove-tailed the offices of housekeeper and cook" to the day when she as exerts control over the hospital's "medicinal whiskey barrel" is to watch a woman find herself. Besides describing "daily scenes of pathos," Pember gives a horrifying account of the prisoner exchange of November 1864 ("living and dead . . . not distinguishable"), and also of the evacuation and burning of Richmond in 1865. Her memoirs were serialized in Cosmopolite magazine in 1866, then reprinted in book form in 1879 under the title A Southern Woman's Story. Pember was honored by the US Postal Service with a stamp in 1995. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

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  • Anonymous

    The stressing of every other word by the narrator was off-putting and I could not get through the first five minutes. Sentences and paragraphs lose their meaning when read in this manner.

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