By Lantern's Light: A Civil War Saga Buried in the Footnotes of History

In 1861 a courageous band of women brave death and defy politicalpowers to render battlefield relief, launching the first MASH Unit onAmerican soil. By these deeds they write their page in history. This dramatic, fact-based story is told through the eyes ofHavannah, a fiery but shallow debutante, who joins the first team ofwomen to work the battlefields during the Civil War. While blood flowsand Minie balls fly, Havannah squares off with head field hospital nursewho vows to dismiss her from the corps. The heroines love affair witha crusty army surgeon adds fuel to the fire. Meanwhile, sisters at home battle enemies who pledge to squash theirefforts to establish the innovative relief plan. On the trail women,board wagons hauled by cantankerous mules, strap soup pots to wagons,forge mountain passes, dodge bullets, set up field hospitals alongsidebattlefields and scour the land, seeking life among the dead. Theweapons they carried were not muskets but hot soup, whispered prayersand compassion, bolstered by fierce determination.