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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 490

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ote ofbeseeching and anguish. And to every man sheturned with a heavenly tenderness, as if he wereindeed her son. She moved about with a decisiveair, and gave directions in such decided, clariontones as to ensure prompt obedience. We all had S r* g-l I ^ i^; H a i7 ■ m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ n> o ^- r) s.… … OJSr THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT. 487 an impression that she held a commission from theSecretary of War, or at least from the Governor ofIllinois. To every surgeon who was superior, sheheld herself subordinate, and was as good at obeyingas at commanding. And yet, at that time, she heldno position…

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