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 . e forcing their way into Mobile under Admiral Far-ragut. She is one of the better sort of Irish women;and, though she rarely receives money from her hus-band, she earns enough to support herself and littledaughter. When well, she needs no assistance; buta weeks sickness or the loss of a weeks work putsher in a tight place. ]N^umber six is a woman whose husband is in theSeventy-second Illinois.
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 . e forcing their way into Mobile under Admiral Far-ragut. She is one of the better sort of Irish women;and, though she rarely receives money from her hus-band, she earns enough to support herself and littledaughter. When well, she needs no assistance; buta weeks sickness or the loss of a weeks work putsher in a tight place. ]N^umber six is a woman whose husband is in theSeventy-second Illinois. She has three children tomaintain, whom she has to neglect in order to earnbread for them. Almost every day, week after week,she leaves the two younger in the care of the older,a little girl of nine years, and goes out to work, wash-ing, scrubbing, and cleaning, from seven in the morn-ing till six in the evening. Last week, when herchildren were locked up in the room in her absence,the baby, eighteen months old, fell out of the second-story chamber window, and was taken up for did not kill the child immediately, but he may yetdie from the effects of the fall. He was taken to the Plate Vf. FAMOUS UNION BATTLE-FLAGS iifth \- fourth (Oolo] 3 Srelfonth (onii. Hr Mass RrQt 2 Firsl K 1. Cavairylorofl);^1. 5. First Vermont Cm-ali-yJh/- /Jcsffi/tf/tiris see fKiqrji ?47~if. Punrnr-RAouu n /i^^D PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK AD WORTHINOTON 8c CO PUBLISHERS. HARTrO^^D CONN not buried like a pauper. 599 childrens ward of the hospital, where he can receivethe care and nursing that his mother cannot givehim. She is worn to a skeleton with hard work, butrarely complains, or asks for help. These last twowomen occupy three miserable attic rooms together,paying ten dollars per month for rent; and theyrender each other all the assistance in their as they are, they are very helpful to one an-other. Number seven was a colored wo
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