Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and PatienceSketches of the heroism of individual women of the Union reveal the strong contributions of northern women to the Civil War |
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... once , and by their exertions , saved his army from scurvy ; Mrs. Porter , Mrs. Bickerdyke , and several others are deserving of mention for their untiring zeal both in these and Sherman's Georgian campaigns . Mrs. Bickerdyke has won ...
... once , and by their exertions , saved his army from scurvy ; Mrs. Porter , Mrs. Bickerdyke , and several others are deserving of mention for their untiring zeal both in these and Sherman's Georgian campaigns . Mrs. Bickerdyke has won ...
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... once . In the cities and large villages the children , with generous self - denial , gave the money usually expended for fireworks to purchase onions and pickles for the soldiers , to pre- vent scurvy . A hundred thousand dollars , it ...
... once . In the cities and large villages the children , with generous self - denial , gave the money usually expended for fireworks to purchase onions and pickles for the soldiers , to pre- vent scurvy . A hundred thousand dollars , it ...
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... once to a new life . The soul of whose existence she had been almost as unconscious as Fouqué's Undine , began to assert its powers , and the gay and fashionable woman , no longer ennuyéd by the emptiness and frivolity of life , found ...
... once to a new life . The soul of whose existence she had been almost as unconscious as Fouqué's Undine , began to assert its powers , and the gay and fashionable woman , no longer ennuyéd by the emptiness and frivolity of life , found ...
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... once ennobled by participation in a great and glorious work , can never again be satisfied to come down to the heartlessness , the frivolities , the petty jealousies , and little- nesses of a life of fashion . Its aspirations and ...
... once ennobled by participation in a great and glorious work , can never again be satisfied to come down to the heartlessness , the frivolities , the petty jealousies , and little- nesses of a life of fashion . Its aspirations and ...
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... once turned into other and new channels nearly all the indus- tries and philanthropies of our nation . With many a premonition , and many a muttering of the coming storm , unheeded , our people , inured to peace , continued unappalled ...
... once turned into other and new channels nearly all the indus- tries and philanthropies of our nation . With many a premonition , and many a muttering of the coming storm , unheeded , our people , inured to peace , continued unappalled ...
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Page 762 - Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet.
Page 761 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 762 - In her attic window the staff she set. To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the Rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. 0 Halt! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast •Fire!
Page 327 - I am not eager, bold, Nor strong — all that is past; I am ready not to 'do At last, at last. My half day's work is done, And this is all my part ; I give a patient God My patient heart, And grasp His banner still, Though all its blue be dim ; These stripes, no less than stars, Lead after Him.
Page 762 - It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,' she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: 'Who touches a hair of yon gray head...
Page 141 - O, praise an' tanks ! De Lord he come To set de people free ; An' massa tink it day ob doom, An' we ob jubilee. De Lord dat heap de Red Sea waves He jus' as 'trong as den ; He say de word : we las' night slaves ; To-day, de lord's freemen.
Page 769 - I have given to my country all I had to give — my husband — such a gift! Yet I have freely given him for freedom and my country.
Page 762 - Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 86 - ... miles around, everywhere eloquently pleading the needs of the blue-coated soldier boys in the hospitals, the eloquence everywhere acting as an open sesame to the granaries. Now they obtained a little from a rich man, and then a great deal from a poor man — deeds of benevolence are half the time in an inverse ratio to the ability of the benefactors — till they had accumulated nearly five hundred bushels of wheat. This they sent to market, obtained the highest market price for it, and forwarded...
Page 329 - ... was managed at first: The surgeons left in care of the wounded three or four miles out from the town, went up and down among the men in the morning, and said, ' Any of you boys who can make your way to the cars can go to Baltimore/ So off start all who think they feel well enough; anything better than the ( hospitals/ so called, for the first few days after a battle.