. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . O h in K ^ a O ft t- u ir IT D u O Q o z UJ X q: O a: ►- 3 3 c. OHiSr B. MARSH, a prisoner in VicksburgJail, had been forced into the Kebel army,and in an attempt to join the Union forceswas recaptnred, and condemned to be before his execution he managed to get the fol-lowing note into the hands of a Union soldier: Ifyou reach our lines have this put into the N^orthernpapers so that my father, the Rev. Leonard
. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . O h in K ^ a O ft t- u ir IT D u O Q o z UJ X q: O a: ►- 3 3 c. OHiSr B. MARSH, a prisoner in VicksburgJail, had been forced into the Kebel army,and in an attempt to join the Union forceswas recaptnred, and condemned to be before his execution he managed to get the fol-lowing note into the hands of a Union soldier: Ifyou reach our lines have this put into the N^orthernpapers so that my father, the Rev. Leonard Marsh,who lives in Maine, may know what has become ofme. I am to be shot for defending my country. Ilove it, and am willing to die for it. Tell my parentsI am happy in the Lord. My future is bright. One of the guards said that after young Marshwas placed in position, he was told that he couldspeak if he desired to do so. Looking calmly overthe crowd for a moment he cried in strong, cleartones, Three cheers for the flag and the Union!There was no response from the crowd, who watchedhim with almost breathless interest, as, standing fear-lessly before them, he faced the muskets that in a fewseconds of time should prove the key that wo
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