. 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 : with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary services of the war . UNION. Flag of the brave I thy folds shall fly. The sign of hope and triumjjh high! When s]peaks the signal-trumpe{ tone. And the long line comes glistening on (Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet. Hath dimmed the glistening bayonet). Ea
. 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 : with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary services of the war . UNION. Flag of the brave I thy folds shall fly. The sign of hope and triumjjh high! When s]peaks the signal-trumpe{ tone. And the long line comes glistening on (Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet. Hath dimmed the glistening bayonet). Each soldiers eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn; And as his springing steps advance. Catch war and vengeance from the glance And when the cannon niouthings loud Heave in ivild ivreaths the battle-shroud, And gory sabres rise and fall Like shoots of flame on midnighCs 2)all— There shall thy meteor-glances glow. And cowering foes shall sink beneath / Each g(dlant arm th(d strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the free hearts hope and home —By angel hands to valor given!Thy stars have lit the welkin all thy hues were born in float that standard sheet!Where brerUhes the foe that falls before us,With Freedonis soil beneath our Freedoms banner streaming oer tis! J. Rodman Drake. 22. descriptions anti Explanations. Note by the Publishers. — No expense or paius have been spared to make thesechromo-lithograph plates accurate in drawing and coloring. The Hags were first photo-graphed, tlius insuring fulness of detail, and a color-sketch was then made of each flag,by a skilful artist, directly from the Hag itself. The photographs were then transferredto stone, from which the plates herewith presented were printed. Each plate requires noless than sixteen printings to produce the various colors and tints necessary to a faithfulrepresentation of the flags, thus requiring one hundred and tiventy-eight engraved stone
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