Identifier: mystoryofwarwoma00live (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission Flags -- United States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lay — it was this nationality of which they wouldbereave us. And all in the interest of humanslavery! I knew the full meaning of slavery, for Ihad lived two years on a plantation in SouthernVirginia, twenty years before, and had seen its woeand shame. If it be a question of the supremacyof freedom or slavery underlying this war, was mymental ejaculation, then I pray God it may be set-tled now, by us, and not be left to our children.And oh that I may be a hand, a foot, an eye, avoice, an influence, on the side of freedom and mycountry! I was weak with the new tides of feelingcoursing through my being. That day cartridges were made for the regimentsby the hundred thousand. Army rifles were orderedfrom the Springfield Armory. Fifteen hundredworkmen Avere engaged for the Charlestown )^avyYard. Enlistments of hardy-looking men went onvigorously, and hundreds of wealthy citizens pledgedpecuniary aid to the families of the soldiers. Mili-tary and professional men tendered their services to
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