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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... troops during the battle , when a shell , coming with fatal accuracy from the rebel works , burst over the flag , and brought it to the ground wet with Plunkett's blood . Both of his arms were shot completely off . Plunkett died in Wor ...
... troops during the battle , when a shell , coming with fatal accuracy from the rebel works , burst over the flag , and brought it to the ground wet with Plunkett's blood . Both of his arms were shot completely off . Plunkett died in Wor ...
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... troops , the rebel color - bearer tore the flag from its staff and attempted to destroy it , but was prevented by the quick movements of Corporal Dolloff , who captured the flag and its bearer . ( Now in the keeping of the War ...
... troops , the rebel color - bearer tore the flag from its staff and attempted to destroy it , but was prevented by the quick movements of Corporal Dolloff , who captured the flag and its bearer . ( Now in the keeping of the War ...
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... troops . The flag was carried in this battle by Color - Sergeant Reuel G. Austin , who was wounded , and it was then carried by Sergeant George S. Gove , who was also wounded . The flag was then seized by Sergeant John R. McCrillis ...
... troops . The flag was carried in this battle by Color - Sergeant Reuel G. Austin , who was wounded , and it was then carried by Sergeant George S. Gove , who was also wounded . The flag was then seized by Sergeant John R. McCrillis ...
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... ( Troop I. , 1st Cavalry R. I. ) , finding that capture was inevitable , stripped the reg- imental standard from the staff , broke the staff and threw it away . Opening his bosom , he wrapped the colors about his body , and so concealed ...
... ( Troop I. , 1st Cavalry R. I. ) , finding that capture was inevitable , stripped the reg- imental standard from the staff , broke the staff and threw it away . Opening his bosom , he wrapped the colors about his body , and so concealed ...
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... troops into position , and the light of morning showed they had completely invested the place with an overwhelming force . The Union troops consisted all told of only sixteen hundred men fit for duty . This force was surrounded by three ...
... troops into position , and the light of morning showed they had completely invested the place with an overwhelming force . The Union troops consisted all told of only sixteen hundred men fit for duty . This force was surrounded by three ...
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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.