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 348
d abuse, they seemed to have learned only lessonsof brutality and tyranny, when they became mule-drivers. As the half-imbruted contrabands came on board,under military surveillance^ clad in the tattered grayand black nigger cloth, and shod with the cloutedbrogans of the plantation, my heart went… … THE IMPASSIVE, SOLEMN CONTRABANDS. 345 woolly-headed toddlers by the other. Old men andwomen, gray, nearly blind, some of them bent almostdouble, bore on their heads and backs the smallplunder they had Hoted from their homes, onthe plantation, or the bread and meat furnishedthem by some friendly…
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