. Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war . , that they mightdie at home; assisted to plan, organize, and conductcolossal Sanitary Fairs; detailed women nurses for thehospitals, by order of Secretary Stanton, and accom-panied them to their posts: in short, the story ofwomens work during the war has never been told,and can never be understood save by those connectedwith it. The war over, Mrs. Livermore resumed theformer tenor of her life, and took up again the phil
. Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war . , that they mightdie at home; assisted to plan, organize, and conductcolossal Sanitary Fairs; detailed women nurses for thehospitals, by order of Secretary Stanton, and accom-panied them to their posts: in short, the story ofwomens work during the war has never been told,and can never be understood save by those connectedwith it. The war over, Mrs. Livermore resumed theformer tenor of her life, and took up again the phil-anthropic and literary work which she had tempo-rarily relinquished. ^Notwithstanding her many yearsof hard service, she is still in vigorous health. Happyin her home, and in the society of her husband,children, and grnndchildi-en, she keeps steadily atwork with voice, and pen, and influence, ready to lenda hand to the weak and struggling, to strike a blowfor the right against the wrong, to prophesy a betterfuture in the distance, and to insist on a womansright to help it along. Since her return from Chicago,her home has been in Melrose, Mass. 40 OUR ARMY NURSES. ii r. STREET SCENE IN RICHMOND AFTER BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS. 42 OUR ARMY NURSES.
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