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 . it was this nationality of which they wouldbereave us. And all in the interest of humanslavery! I knew the full meaning of slavery, for Ihad lived two years on a plantation in SouthernVirginia, twenty years before, and had seen its woeand shame. If it be a question of the supremacyof freedom or slavery underlying this war, was mymental ejaculation, then I pray God it may be set-tled now, by us
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 . it was this nationality of which they wouldbereave us. And all in the interest of humanslavery! I knew the full meaning of slavery, for Ihad lived two years on a plantation in SouthernVirginia, twenty years before, and had seen its woeand shame. If it be a question of the supremacyof freedom or slavery underlying this war, was mymental ejaculation, then I pray God it may be set-tled now, by us, and not be left to our oh that I may be a hand, a foot, an eye, avoice, an influence, on the side of freedom and mycountry! I was weak with the new tides of feelingcoursing through my being. That day cartridges were made for the regimentsby the hundred thousand. Army rifles were orderedfrom the Springfield Armory. Fifteen hundredworkmen were engaged for the Charlestown I^avyYard. Enlistments of hardy-looking men went onvigorously, and hundreds of wealthy citizens pledgedpecuniary aid to the families of the soldiers. Mili-tary and professional men tendered their services to PLbXL. FAMOUS UNION BATTLE - FLAOS . I. Kltneuth Hpc|1 2. Hpndniiartfi-s (iiiiili)ii TJld \ojmmit Brigade. ^ (;(Hl\i\vi(.J<s r»lli Corr^ llrnd For DeKcnpfions â¢sen pett/es 23~^b. ^HUlU.,,.APKtD kVJj PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EX = .IT^C FALL INTO LINE ! 95 the government in its present emergency. TheBoston banks oftered to loan the state three milHonsix hundred thousand dollars without security, whilebanks outside the city, throughout the state, wereequally generous in their offers. By six oclock onthe afternoon of Tuesday, April 16, three regi-ments were ready to start for Washington, and newcompanies were being raised in all parts of the the afternoon of the next day, the Sixth Massa-chusetts, a full regiment one thousand strong, startedfrom Boston
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