Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War is a personal memoir written by Mrs. Fannie (née Dimon) Beers, who served as a nurse and matron at Confederate hospitals in the Southern War for Independence. Called by many “the Florence Nightingale of the South, her memories of the Civil War are contained in 363 pages of text, annotations, and pictures. This reprint has more pages than the original due to added material, but nothing has been taken from the original. Fannie Dimon was a native of Connecticut who married A. P. Beers, a Southerner. Not only did she fall in love with the Yale student, she also fell in love with the South. With the onset of what is commonly called the “Civil War,” Mr. Beers joined the Fenner Louisiana Light Artillery of the Confederate army and sent Fannie, who had a young child and was expecting another, to the safety of her home state. Unwilling to abandon her outspoken and ardent support for the South, her life in Connecticut was unhappy, With the exception of her immediate family, the populace was downright cruel to her because of her husband’s Confederate service and her own sympathy for the Confederacy. So, she returned to her beloved adopted South, and laboured as a nurse in both hospitals and on battlefields. In a heartwarming and sometimes shocking narrative, she tells the story of her experiences. While this book has seen numerous reprints, this one is differentiated from the others in that it has annotations giving statistics of battles and background information to aid in a better understanding of the things she talks about in these recollections. Also added were period drawings of nurses at work.