The 2011 Shaara Prize Winner for Civil War Fiction - Civil War Institute - Gettysburg College

Robin Oliveira was announced the winner of the Annual Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction for her book My Name is Mary Sutter. Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York. She dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak, Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Under the guidance of William Stipp and James Blevens, two surgeons who fall unwittingly in love with Mary's courage, will, and stubbornness in the face of suffering, and resisting her mother's pleas to return home to help with the birth of her twin sister's baby. Mary pursues her medical career in the desperately overwhelmed hospitals of the capital.

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