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 . nes that passed before my eyeson that day. The whole army was worn out, two-thirds suffering from scurvy and malarial diseases,and yet it was obliged to bivouac in this horriblemud, and to be pelted with a drenching rain. Thewounded were brought in ambulances by noble mansion of the estate was not a hundredthpart large enough to receive them. It was a blessedthing that the river w
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 . nes that passed before my eyeson that day. The whole army was worn out, two-thirds suffering from scurvy and malarial diseases,and yet it was obliged to bivouac in this horriblemud, and to be pelted with a drenching rain. Thewounded were brought in ambulances by noble mansion of the estate was not a hundredthpart large enough to receive them. It was a blessedthing that the river was at hand, and that there weretransports upon it to receive these poor fellows, andto bear them to places where they could have betterattention. It fared the worst with the sick. I^o appeal oftheirs was attended to. They lay in thousandsaround the premises, upon the wet ground, coveredonly with a bit of gum cloth or a blanket. It was asight to make a man forever hate the name of war,to see these little mounds of human gave no signs of life, save a stifled groan, orthe motion given to the bit of cloth by the act ofbreathing. All day and all night they remained in this Plate VIII. FAMOUS UNION BATTLE-FLAGS. (ApntN eightli Ohio Rt^t. 2. Soveiity eij^hth Penu. RedH SThii-U socond Ind Nmlli K\ RnVI .S Orip hnndivfl and twenty ninth IllsHf^t. 6. Righteenlli NY. Cavali-y. Fnr Desrrif^itinns .spf fyac/n^ ^3 AND PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK AD WORTHINGTON 8t CO PUBLISHERS. HARTfORO. CONN GENERAL HOWARDS ARM SHATTERED. 659 exposed situation, many of them huriied out of theworld by this neglect. I suppose the surgeons, forthe most part, did what they could; but I have a feelingthat there is a great fault somewhere. Everybodydeclares that the Medical Department, as now organ-ized, is a disgraceful failure. At the battle of Fair Oaks, General Howardsright arm was shattered by a ball, so that it had to beamputated abov
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