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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 (1890)

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 · Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington and Company · leaf 214

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ed at it earnestly for a few mo-ments, pressed it to his lips, and then clasped it inboth hands. When I returned to his bed, sometwenty minutes later, he was still looking upward,his hands still clasping the photograph, and his facewas irradiated with the most heavenly smile I haveever seen on any…

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