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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 268

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congregation came in,promptly and with ever-rising enthusiasm, with theoft-repeated chorus. All sang with closed eyes,thus shutting out all external impressions, and aban-doned themselves to the ecstasy of the hour. Theleader gesticulated violently, swinging his armsaround his head, uplifting his… … SCEKE OP WILD EXCITEMENT. 265 tions, which were interspersed with quick, convulsiveleaps from the floor. Accompanying all this was ageneral hand-shaking, in which we white peoplewere included. One powerful Maryland womannearly toppled me from the elevated and precariousseat which I had selected,…

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