. 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 . rrible scenes that passed before my eyeson that day. The Avhole army was worn out, two-thirds suffering from scurvy and malarial diseases,and yet it was obliged to bivouac in this horriblemud, and to be pelted with a drenching rain. Thewo
. 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 . rrible scenes that passed before my eyeson that day. The Avhole army was worn out, two-thirds suffering from scurvy and malarial diseases,and yet it was obliged to bivouac in this horriblemud, and to be pelted with a drenching rain. Thewounded were brought in ambulances by noble mansion of the estate was not a huudredthpart large enough to receive them. It was a blessedthing that the river was at hand, and that there weretransports upon it to receive these poor fellows, andto bear them to places where they could have betterattention. It fared the worst with the sick. No appeal oftheirs was attended to. They lay in thousandsaround the premises, upon the wet ground, coveredonly with a bit of gum cloth or a blanket. It was asight to make a man forever hate the name of war,to see these little mounds of human gave no signs of life, save a stifled groan, orthe motion given to the bit of cloth by the act ofbreathing. All day and all night they remained in this. FAMOUS UNION BATTLE-FLAGS. 1 Sc\CTit\ ei$})t.)i Ohio Heot 1, S wen t\eiQhtli Perm. Redt ■ 3. Thirtv set-ond ;. Ninth Ky He(jt .^hundied and twenfv riinih ^hteeiitJi For Descriphnris fipp /tnges fij-6SPHOTOGRAPHED AND PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK
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