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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 69

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one of thefirst upon the enemys breastworks, where he stood erectamid the rain of shot and shell, and waved the flag to cheerhis comrades on. While holding it in his right hand a ballshattered the arm, but he immediately raised the falling col-ors with his left, which soon shared the fate of his… … 1. The Mississippi Steamer Fanny Ogden on her way with Relief for SickAND Wounded Soldiers. 2. On the Way to Antietam with Hospital Supplies.

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