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Download or read book Story of Aunt Becky's Army-Life written by Sarah A. Palmer and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ""unpretending story"" published in 1867, Sarah Palmer, known to the Union soldiers she nursed during the Civil War as ""Aunt Becky,"" tells simply and directly one woman's tale of war. Palmer, believed to have been the first woman to serve as a Union Army nurse, cared for countless sick, wounded, and dying soldiers during her three years of service. Said one soldier, ""I never knew a woman so much thought of as she was by the boys - she never showed any partiality - we all got the same attention - officers no more than privates.""