 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1872 - 796 pages
...foul, and we were longing for a breath of our cooler Northern air, and the men were moaning in pain or restless with fever, and our hearts were sick with...saw a young lady enter, who brought with her such an atmosphere of calm and cheerful courage, so much freshness, such an expression of gentle, wom,anly... | |
 | 1872 - 842 pages
...a breath of our e<x>le Northern air, and the men were moanu^ in pain or restless with fever, and ou hearts were sick with pity for the sufferers I heard a light step upon the stairs ; an-. looking up, I saw a young lady enter, wfo brought with her such an atmosphere a calm and cheerful... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - United States - 1876 - 686 pages
...was yet in her efforts for the soldiers a type of the other faithful nurses from the East and West. " One afternoon just before the evacuation, when the...pity for the sufferers, I heard a light step upon the i Woman's Work in the Civil War, p. 135. stairs ; and looking up I saw a young lady enter, who brought... | |
 | E. R. Hanson - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1881 - 552 pages
...foul, and we were longing for a breath of our cooler Northern air, and the men were moaning in pain or restless with fever, and our hearts were sick with...saw a young lady enter, who brought with her such an atmosphere of calm and cheerful courage, so much freshness, such an expression of gentle, womanly sympathy,... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - United States - 1882 - 746 pages
...was yet in her efforts for the soldiers a type of the sther faithful nurses from the East and West. " One afternoon just before the evacuation, when the...pity for the sufferers, I heard a light step upon the i Woman's Work In the Civil War, p. 136. stairs ; and looking up I saw a young lady enter, who brought... | |
 | James Lorenzo Bowen - Massachusetts - 1884 - 498 pages
...some means of alleviation. Of the visit of o ministering angel of another type, Dr. Reed, a surgeon, says: One afternoon, just before the evacuation, when...and foul, and all were longing for a breath of our pure northern air, while the men were moaning in pain or were restless with fever, and our hearts were... | |
 | James Lorenzo Bowen - Massachusetts - 1884 - 502 pages
...when the atmosphere of our rooms was close and foul, and all were longing for a breath of our pure northern air, while the men were moaning in pain or were restless \vitli fever, and our hearts were sick with pity for the sufferers, I heard, a light step upon the... | |
 | Hospitals - 1895 - 580 pages
...was the Marie Mansion." It was here he first met Miss Gilson, and he thus described the meeting:— "One afternoon just before the evacuation, when the...saw a young lady enter, who brought with her such an atmosphere of calm and cheerful courage, so much freshness, such an expression of gentle, womanly sympathy,... | |
 | Newton Martin Curtis - New York (State) - 1906 - 446 pages
...hospitals. It is reproduced from Hospital Life in the Army of the Potomac, by William Howell Reed. "One afternoon, just before the evacuation, when the...our cooler Northern air, while the men were moaning with pain, or were restless with fever, and our hearts were sick with pity for the sufferers, I heard... | |
 | Franklin Brigham Fay - Hospitals - 1911 - 190 pages
...of trial when she and Mr. Fay visited our group of hospitals on the heights of Fredericksburg : — One afternoon, just before the evacuation, when the...heard a light step upon the stairs, and, looking up, saw a young lady enter, who brought with her such an atmosphere of calm and cheerful courage, so much... | |
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One afternoon, just before the evacuation, when the atmosphere of our rooms was close and foul, and all were longing for a breath of our cooler northern air, while the men were moaning in pain, or were restless with fever, and our hearts were sick with... 
