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 520
dier. She would alwaysdefend General Grant like a tigress if hewere assailed; but it was clear to every onethat General Sherman was the special objectof her idolatry. And to-day I think she would findit easy to give her life for Sherman, if the sacrificewere necessary. She would count it a small… … 516 AliT ENYIABLE :N^0T0RIETY. General Sherman on his side fully appreciatedMother Bickerdyke; and when he was curt andrepellant to all agents, nurses, and employes of theSanitary, Christian, and State Commissions, she hadthe entree to his headquarters, and obtained anyfavor she chose to ask. There…
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