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This was a good read, but the story was interrupted by seemingly unrelated bits about President Abraham Lincoln and his men. I found that a little off-putting. The story itself, about Mary Sutter, a midwife who aspires to be a doctor in a day and age when such a thing was both shocking and largely unattainable, is a wonderful portrayal of the horrors of the Civil war from the perspective of the nurses and doctors. Swimming in bodies of the injured and dying, battling septic challenges that would
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