Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience, Part 1Sketches of the heroism of individual women of the Union reveal the strong contributions of northern women to the Civil War. |
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... arrival at Washington , the first labor she offered on her country's altar , was the nursing of some wounded soldiers , victims of the Baltimore mob . Thus was she earliest in the field . Washington became a great camp . Every one was ...
... arrival at Washington , the first labor she offered on her country's altar , was the nursing of some wounded soldiers , victims of the Baltimore mob . Thus was she earliest in the field . Washington became a great camp . Every one was ...
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... arrived in Washington , and as the Sanitary Commission held no meeting that day , we decided after breakfast to pay a visit to Miss Dix . " We fortunately found the good lady at home , but just ready to start for the hospitals . She is ...
... arrived in Washington , and as the Sanitary Commission held no meeting that day , we decided after breakfast to pay a visit to Miss Dix . " We fortunately found the good lady at home , but just ready to start for the hospitals . She is ...
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... arrival were often very poorly provided for . The 21st of April happened to be Sunday . No omnibuses ran that day , and street cars as yet were not ; so she hired five colored persons , loaded them with baskets of ready prepared food ...
... arrival were often very poorly provided for . The 21st of April happened to be Sunday . No omnibuses ran that day , and street cars as yet were not ; so she hired five colored persons , loaded them with baskets of ready prepared food ...
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... arrived , the small stock of dressings was exhausted , and the surgeons were trying to make bandages of corn - husks . Miss Barton opened to them her stock of dressings , and proceeded with her companions to distribute bread steeped in ...
... arrived , the small stock of dressings was exhausted , and the surgeons were trying to make bandages of corn - husks . Miss Barton opened to them her stock of dressings , and proceeded with her companions to distribute bread steeped in ...
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... arrived , and Miss Barton having exhausted her small stores , and finding that continued fatigue and watching were bringing on a fever , turned her course towards Washington . It was with difficulty that she was able to reach home ...
... arrived , and Miss Barton having exhausted her small stores , and finding that continued fatigue and watching were bringing on a fever , turned her course towards Washington . It was with difficulty that she was able to reach home ...
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Page 752 - 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,
Page 751 - 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 565 - I'll go to Jesus, though my sin Hath like a mountain rose, I know His courts, I'll enter in Whatever may oppose.
Page 752 - Fair as a garden of the Lord To the eyes of the famished rebel horde, On that pleasant morn of the early fall, When Lee marched over the mountain-wall — 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 752 - 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. " Halt!" the dust-brown ranks stood fast; " Fire !
Page 323 - I LAY me down to sleep, With little thought or care Whether my waking find Me here, — or THERE ! A bowing, burdened head, That only asks to rest, Unquestioning, upon A loving Breast. My good right hand forgets Its cunning now ; To march the weary march I know not how. 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...
Page 752 - 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. 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. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson...
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 325 - So oft' start all who think they feel well enough ; anything better than the 'hospitals,' so called, for the first few days after a battle. Once the men have the surgeons' permission to go, they are off; and there may be an interval of a day, or two days, should any of them be too weak to reach the train in time, during which these poor fellows belong to no one, — the hospital at one end, the railroad at the other, — with far more than a chance of falling through between the two.
Page 86 - Commission of their bed and table linen, their husbands' shirts and drawers, their scanty supply of dried and canned fruits, till they had exhausted their ability to do more in this direction. Still they were not satisfied. So they cast about to see what could be done in another way. They were all the wives of small farmers, lately moved to the West...