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 . Women, Girls, and Soldiers â Drayloads of Boxes â Ladies seeking Information â Express Mes-sengers â The Morning Mail â The aged Father and his dead Son âWhat ails the little Fellow?âA Bevy of Nurses â A sorrow-stricken Mother â Soldiers from the City Hospitals â More loadedDrays â More Men and Women come and go â The Day declines âReturn to my Home â A Suburb of Heaven. HE headquarters of the
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 . Women, Girls, and Soldiers â Drayloads of Boxes â Ladies seeking Information â Express Mes-sengers â The Morning Mail â The aged Father and his dead Son âWhat ails the little Fellow?âA Bevy of Nurses â A sorrow-stricken Mother â Soldiers from the City Hospitals â More loadedDrays â More Men and Women come and go â The Day declines âReturn to my Home â A Suburb of Heaven. HE headquarters of the Chicago, or Northwestern Sanitary Commission, asit was correctly re-christenedâfor all theNorthwestern states became its auxiliariesâ were the least attractive rooms in the during a brief period of its early ex-istence, it occupied the large rooms under McVick-ers Theatre, then, as now, on Madison Street. Theyseemed smaller than they were, because they weregenerally crowded with boxes and packages, huddledtogether to suit the convenience of those whoopened, unpacked, assorted, stamped, and repackedtheir contents. Drays were continually unloading 155. 156 THE PERFUME OF THE SANITARY. and re-loading with a furious racket; and the dray-men were not possessors of soft, low voices. Thedin was further increased by mcessant hammeringand pounding within, caused by opening and nailingup boxes. Horse-cars passed to and fro every min-ute, and heavily laden teams, omnibuses, carriages,carts and w^agons of all descriptions, rolled by withintermitting thunder. The sewing-rooms of the Commission were locatedon the floor above us, where between thirty andforty sewing-machines ran all day. Upstairs, anddownstairs, and over our heads, the women of thesoldiers families maintained a ceaseless tramp frommorning till night, coming to sew, to receive or re-turn work, or to get their greatly needed pay. Addto this a steady stream of callers, on every imagina-ble errand, in
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