Here is a book that fits your specific request for historical fiction about female nurses during the Civil War:

South Under a Prairie Sky by C. Kay Larson

It is written in the form of a journal by a character named Nell Churchill, who is a "composite character, based on nurse and scout memoirs" in addition to "Civil War histories, newspapers, journals and letters" and thus relies heavily on actual facts:
http://www.hallrichard.com/civilwar.htm

Here it is for sale at Xlibris:
http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=36543

This next one may be of interest to you. Although it isn't specifically about female nurses, it does take place in a hospital setting. Readers are saying very positive things about it:

Two Brothers: One North, One South by David H. Jones

"Whitman served as a nurse during the war, and in Two Brothers he functions as a caretaker of the wounded Prentiss brothers – men hospitalized in the wake of the fighting."
http://www.1861-1865.org/

All about the author and the book:
http://www.davidhjones.net/

Here it is on the Barnes & Noble site:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Two-Brothers/David-H-Jones/e/9780979689857/?itm=1&usri=Two+Brothers++One+North++One+South

Also, here's something interesting for history buffs. This site contains a list of bookstores which specialize in American Civil War books:
http://www.biblio.com/booksellers/716/American_Civil_War_Bookdealers.html

Of course, there are plenty of biographical, nonfiction types of books about female nurses during that time period which are worth looking into as well, including Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse by Kate Cumming; Letters of a Civil War Nurse by Cornelia Hancock; Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes by Hannah Ropes an John Brumgardt; White Roses: Women Nurses in the Civil War by Rebecca D. Larson; Blue,Gray and Red: Two Nurse's Views of the Civil War by Louisa May Alcott and Kate Cumming; Clara Barton: Civil War Nurse by Nancy Whitelaw; Hospital Days: Reminiscence of a Civil War Nurse by Jane Stuart Woolsey. The list seems to be endless when it comes to true or mostly true stories.

Happy reading!

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