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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... (1889)

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 · Hartford, Conn., A. D. Worthington and company · leaf 216

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