. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . AN AFTERNOON CONCERT AT THE OFFICERS QUARTERS, IIAREWOOD HOSPITAL, NEAR WASHINGTON Hospital life for those well enoughto enjoy it was far from the white-clad nurse withher prim apron and hoopskirton the right of the photograph,and the band on the left. Mosthospitals had excellent librariesand a full supply of current news-papers and periodicals, usuallypresented gratuitously. Many ofthe larger ones organized andmaintained bands for the amuse-men
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . AN AFTERNOON CONCERT AT THE OFFICERS QUARTERS, IIAREWOOD HOSPITAL, NEAR WASHINGTON Hospital life for those well enoughto enjoy it was far from the white-clad nurse withher prim apron and hoopskirton the right of the photograph,and the band on the left. Mosthospitals had excellent librariesand a full supply of current news-papers and periodicals, usuallypresented gratuitously. Many ofthe larger ones organized andmaintained bands for the amuse-ment of the patients; they alsoprovided lectures, concerts, andtheatrical and other entertain-ments. A hospital near the frontreceiving cases of the most severecharacter might have a death-rateas high as twelve per cent., wlulethose farther in the rear mighthave a very much lower death-rate of but six, four, or even two. LOUISA M. ALCOTT. THE AUTHOR OF LITTLE WOMEN, AS A NURSE IN 1862 per cent. The portrait accom-panying shows Louisa M. Alcott,the author of Little Men,Little Women, An Old Fash-ioned Girl, and the other booksthat have endeared her to millionsof readers. Her diary of 1862contains this characteristic note:November. Thirty years to go to Washington as anurse if I could find a place. Helpneeded, and I love nursing andmust let out my pent-up energy insome new way. She had not yetattained fame as a writer, but itwas during this time that shewrote for a newspaper the lettersafterwards collected as HospitalSketches. It is due to the cour-tesy of Messrs. Little, Brown &Company of Boston that the war-time portrait is here reproduced. save the Second Corps, which for the first time in its gloriouscareer was put to rout. Their very guns were captured andturned upon them. In the following weeks there were no actions of impor-tance except that in the last days of September Generals O
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