Author: Christina J. Easley / Year: Current / Genre: 4th of July Gail Nightingale is a ghost. She has lived since the days before the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. Gail was a nurse. She was caring for the wounded soldiers. Gail was just like Florence Nightingale. There was a coughing sickness that was spreading across the land. Gail Nightingale joins a group of healing women to cure the plague. Gail Nightingale was there to hear Abraham Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves. Gail was like a bird that needed to be set free from the cage of her mortal body.
