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 the (14576159199)

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Title: 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 the rebellion : with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary services of the war

Year: 1890 (1890s)

Authors: Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905

Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission Flags -- United States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work

Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington and Company

Contributing Library: New York Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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le. Both of them are so abused in the army,and both are so dumbly patient, and uncomplaining,and receive so little sympathy, that I suffer a perpet-ual heartache on their account. To express pityfor, or interest in, a suffering mule, or to interposeentreaties on its behalf, was to run the gauntlet ofthe most stinging ridicule. Everybody beat andneglected the unhandsome brutes; and when theyfell into the hands of the ill-treated negroes, theyfared worse than ever. From their own joersecutionand abuse, they seemed to have learned only lessonsof brutality and tyranny, when they became mule-drivers. As the half-imbruted contrabands came on board,under military surveillance, clad in the tattered grayand black nigger cloth, and shod with the cloutedbrogans of the plantation, my heart went out to them.Subdued, impassive, solemn, hope and courage nowand then lighting up their sable faces, they werea most interesting study. Mothers carried theirpiquant-faced babies on one arm, and led little n

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1890

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