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 . onfident theyshould find friends, as they had done all alongthe route. All were provided for long before theyreached Boston; for the people on the train becameinfected with generosity and patriotism, and freelygave whatever money was needed. While I was in Boston, an instrument of slavetorture was on exhibition, such as Northern peoplehad often heard described, but in whose existencefew believ
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 . onfident theyshould find friends, as they had done all alongthe route. All were provided for long before theyreached Boston; for the people on the train becameinfected with generosity and patriotism, and freelygave whatever money was needed. While I was in Boston, an instrument of slavetorture was on exhibition, such as Northern peoplehad often heard described, but in whose existencefew believed. It was shown at the art rooms ofWilliams and Everett, on Washington Street, andseemed fearfully out of place amid the pictures, stat-uary, and bric-a-brac, of the handsome rooms. It wasa rough, heavy iron collar, weighing half a dozenpounds, from which three curved prongs rose, with ajoint at the back, and closed in front with a rivet. It was taken from the neck of a slave girl, nearNew Orleans, by Captain S. T. Reed, of the ThirdMassachusetts Cavalry. The girl w^as about eighteenyears of age, quite white, — an octoroon, — and verybeautiful. She had attempted to run away; and, as Plate II. FAMOUS UNION B AT TLE - FLAGS . 1 Twenty Inst Mass \UQ\ 2 FoHielh N ^ Hr^\ :V KMii-ti>cnlli ( onti Moijl •l- Iwoiitv loiM-ifi UoQt ) Kiist Mmum-H Vn ^l Coir ?- ^i /hr Descrifttiotts sf^ p(t(/(tti ^y /-/.PHOTOGRAPHED AND PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK INSTRUMENT OF SLAVE TORTURE. 241 the city was occupied by Federal troops, she wassuspected of sympathy with the Yaukees. Forthis she was invested with this iron collar, — whichhad rusted into the neck, — and she had beenchained in a dungeon and half starved for threemonths. The girl was taken to the city, where the ironcollar was removed from her neck by a blacksmith,and she was subsequently freed by military authority. As we approached Washington, we were tilledwith amazement at the number of furlo
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