My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira

Medicine and the Civil War.
Women's Equality.
Mary Sutter is a midwife who becomes a civil war nurse. Mary wants to be a surgeon but is blocked by prejudice against women in medicine. She experiences the harsh realities and the horrible suffering of the civil war. She finds love and loneliness. Mary never gives up her quest to know more and become a surgeon. The novel includes the beginning of research to prevent wound infection and contamination from patient to patient.
A great read of historical fiction of the civil war!!!!!