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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, A. D. Worthington and company · leaf 140

An illustration from 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, leaf 140 — diers families, were formed withgreat spontaneity at the very beginning ofthe war. There were a dozen or more ofthem in Chicago, in less than a month afterCairo was occupied by Northern troops. Theyraised money, prepared and forwarded supplies ofwhatever was demanded, every shipment being… … 136 SECRETS OF THE BOXES. worked independently during the first year of thewar, the Sanitary Commission of Chicago being onlyone of the relief agencies. But the Commissiongradually grew in public confidence, and gained inscope and power; and all the local societies wereeventually merged in it, or…

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