Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience, Part 1

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Zeigler, McCurdy & Company, 1867 - United States - 799 pages
Sketches of the heroism of individual women of the Union reveal the strong contributions of northern women to the Civil War.

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Contents

I
55
II
95
III
97
IV
109
V
111
VI
133
VII
149
VIII
161
LIV
492
LV
493
LVI
495
LVII
498
LVIII
499
LIX
501
LX
507
LXI
510

IX
171
X
187
XI
200
XII
212
XIII
225
XIV
233
XV
239
XVI
249
XVII
259
XVIII
267
XIX
272
XX
277
XXI
282
XXII
287
XXIII
297
XXIV
314
XXV
316
XXVI
322
XXVII
341
XXVIII
350
XXIX
356
XXX
360
XXXI
372
XXXII
378
XXXIII
383
XXXIV
388
XXXV
393
XXXVI
398
XXXVII
402
XXXVIII
412
XXXIX
416
XL
423
XLI
425
XLII
430
XLIII
436
XLIV
444
XLV
451
XLVI
457
XLVII
463
XLVIII
473
XLIX
476
L
485
LI
487
LII
489
LIII
491
LXII
513
LXIII
516
LXIV
518
LXV
521
LXVII
523
LXVIII
536
LXIX
549
LXX
556
LXXI
558
LXXII
575
LXXIII
584
LXXIV
587
LXXV
590
LXXVI
601
LXXVII
609
LXXVIII
611
LXXIX
615
LXXX
624
LXXXI
637
LXXXII
644
LXXXIII
653
LXXXIV
659
LXXXV
670
LXXXVI
673
LXXXVII
675
LXXXVIII
677
LXXXIX
685
XC
691
XCI
698
XCII
704
XCIII
711
XCV
722
XCVI
736
XCVII
739
XCIX
743
C
746
CI
752
CII
753
CIII
756
CIV
759
CV
762
CVI
767
CVII
771
CVIII
775
CIX
779

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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...

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