My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of Rebellion, Part 1Anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary service of the war. |
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... suffering families , I was embarrassed by the enormous bulk of the collection . It was no small task to collate and arrange the appalling mass of documents , and to decide what would be of present interest , and what had been made ...
... suffering families , I was embarrassed by the enormous bulk of the collection . It was no small task to collate and arrange the appalling mass of documents , and to decide what would be of present interest , and what had been made ...
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... sufferings , but none had time then to attend to one poor wounded fellow . 6 " That night he managed to crawl off to a little hut near the field , where some other wounded men had hung out a yellow flag . Here they lay , with a little ...
... sufferings , but none had time then to attend to one poor wounded fellow . 6 " That night he managed to crawl off to a little hut near the field , where some other wounded men had hung out a yellow flag . Here they lay , with a little ...
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... suffer- ing is so impressed on my mind as that fatal charge made by your regiment on the 18th of June , 1864. . . . The brigade moved off , your fine regiment handsomely in the front . You went gallantly , not to meet success . That was ...
... suffer- ing is so impressed on my mind as that fatal charge made by your regiment on the 18th of June , 1864. . . . The brigade moved off , your fine regiment handsomely in the front . You went gallantly , not to meet success . That was ...
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... suffering , disease , wounds , and death . It was carried through forty- four battles and skirmishes , and was the first Union flag to enter Petersburg . It was carried in Burnside's " Geography Class , " from Virginia to Maryland ...
... suffering , disease , wounds , and death . It was carried through forty- four battles and skirmishes , and was the first Union flag to enter Petersburg . It was carried in Burnside's " Geography Class , " from Virginia to Maryland ...
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... sufferings . A large number of the survivors died soon after the war , of disease contracted in those fearful pens . Few if any of those now living are free from the life - long effects of horrible starvation and exposure . All through ...
... sufferings . A large number of the survivors died soon after the war , of disease contracted in those fearful pens . Few if any of those now living are free from the life - long effects of horrible starvation and exposure . All through ...
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Page 564 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 564 - Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 193 - Then to my raptured ear Let one sweet song be given; Let music charm me last on earth And greet me first in heaven.
Page 20 - tis given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of War, The harbingers of victory!
Page 20 - Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted...
Page 541 - Repeal the Missouri Compromise, repeal all compromises, repeal the Declaration of Independence, repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong, and out of the abundance of his heart his mouth will continue to speak.
Page 41 - ... turning round every now and then to shake his fist at the advancing rebels. General Hill said he felt quite sorry when he saw this gallant Yankee meet his doom.
Page 537 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 418 - The formal words at the top and the conclusion, except the signature, you perceive, are not in my handwriting. They were written at the State Department, by whom I know not. The printed part was cut from a copy of the preliminary proclamation, and pasted on, merely to save writing. I had some desire to retain the paper ; but if it shall contribute to the relief or comfort of the soldiers, that will be better.
Page 20 - When speaks the signal trumpet tone, And the long line comes gleaming on, — Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, Has dimmed the glistening bayonet, — Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn ; And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.