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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 347

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abuse, they seemed to have learned only lessonsof brutality and tyranny, when they became mule-drivers. As the half-imbruted contrabands came on board,under military surveillance, clad in the tattered grayand black nigger cloth, and shod with the cloutedbrogans of the plantation, my heart went out…

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