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. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . opyrigta, 1910, i,u Patriot /ubtuhtng (., Springfield, Ma Noble Women of the United States Sanitary Co A group of wounded soldiers at Fredericksburg, in the tender care of Sanitary Conv The ministrations of these noble women, and the medical supplies and other ol theii plendid organization, robbed the long war of many horroraj The loldiei • irerc disabled in the bloody battles of the Wilderness, fought May 5 ,, then fiercely and disastrously continued about Spotsylvania Court House. Themen belong to Kearneys Division, so called even after it
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . opyrigta, 1910, i,u Patriot /ubtuhtng (., Springfield, Ma Noble Women of the United States Sanitary Co A group of wounded soldiers at Fredericksburg, in the tender care of Sanitary Conv The ministrations of these noble women, and the medical supplies and other ol theii plendid organization, robbed the long war of many horroraj The loldiei • irerc disabled in the bloody battles of the Wilderness, fought May 5 ,, then fiercely and disastrously continued about Spotsylvania Court House. Themen belong to Kearneys Division, so called even after its leader was killed in battles The nurses of the Sanitary Commission eared for the siek and wounded, suppliedthe need) urith clothes, and itood ready af all times to come to the relief of the army. From tht Photographic History of the Ciril War, Publishid by lit rinc of Reviews Co ssion Softening the Horrors of War — May, 1864. with lenls, food, medical supplies and, above all, competent nurses. The kind facesof these self-sacrificing women were enshrined in many a soldiers heart after the are men living today whose brightest memory of the bitter four years is thepitying face and gentle hands of a nurse of the Sanitary Commission. In one volume of the Photographic History there are many photographs taken inprisons and hospitals, showing the surgeons and the nurses in the army, and womanscourage in hospital and battleground—with numerous stories of feminine devotionand loyalty.
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