. 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 . istance; buta weeks sickness or the loss of a weeks work putsher in a tight place. IN^umber six is a woman whose husband is in theSeventy-second Illinois. She has three children tomaintain, whom she has to neglect in order to earnbread fo
. 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 . istance; buta weeks sickness or the loss of a weeks work putsher in a tight place. IN^umber six is a woman whose husband is in theSeventy-second Illinois. She has three children tomaintain, whom she has to neglect in order to earnbread for them. Almost every day, week after week,she leaves the two younger in the care of the older,a little girl of nine years, and goes out to work, wash-ing, scrubbing, and cleaning, from seven in the morn-ing till six in the evening. Last week, when herchildren were locked up in the room in her absence,the baby, eighteen months old, fell out of the second-story chamber window, and was taken up for did not kill the child immediately, but he may yetdie from the effects of the fall. He was taken to the *^18 ;wn-.^6»t Point. 1 Olen<i IWaives Frede]c;cl • ard. ■3^* Mine Uun. fw Wildfsrness. Po River. SpoU»ylva«»ra- ^ ^^•^ ^ iisna. L Tol«T iftnmoy. 1 .A I arbor. f ^ J »bur^ ^^H ^^H Lry Plains Aalion. ^oaa Boad. \\c_ /•. FAMOUS UNION BATTLE-FLAGS. 1 FHt!. Reel -^ l-nSl 3. S, C-- i^<^ i- Fifty fourth ( 5. First Vem^ont Cavalf^. «• Mass Hc^ Desrri/iUoTis sec pa</s AND PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK .^^\ not buried like a rAUPER. 599 childrens ward of the hospital, where he can receivethe care and nursing that his mother cannot givehim. She is worn to a skeleton with hard work, butrarely complains, or asks for help. These last twowomen occupy three miserable attic rooms together,paying ten dollars per month for rent; and theyrender each ot
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