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 237
ton, to which everyBranch of the Commission sent women rep-resentatives. Sanitary supplies were rapidlyon the decrease, while the increasing demandfor them was pitiful. The people lacked confidencein the ability of the Commission to carry to thesuffering soldiers the supplies intrusted to its… … WOMEN IN COUNCIL. 233 area of its operations; nor yet the inability of thegovernment to meet these necessities, while it wastaxed to the utmost in every other direction. A more perfect organization of the system of reliefwas necessary; so also was a greater concert of ac-tion and a unification of…
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