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 468
led over the country. Thereturn of peace was longed for with anintensity not to be expressed in words; andthe movements of the great armies as theydrew more closely together for a last, final grapple,were watched with indescribable eagerness. Therewas no abatement of the iron resolve that the… … 464 Shermans march to the sea. emergency. But it was evident that the end wasdrawing near — that the decisive blow was soon tobe struck; and the nervous strain on the people, whowaited and listened for this desired consummation,interfered seriously with the ordinary pursuits ofbusiness and life.…
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