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 535
gh which she had passed,her labors, her fastings, her anxieties, hadbeen sufficient to kill a dozen women. Shewas greatly reduced by them; and as soon asher place could be supplied by another matron, shecame North, a mere shadow of her former self. The same efforts were made to honor her as on… … ELOQUENT SPEECH IN MILWAUKEE. 531 fair for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers,would not be denied the pleasure of a visit from her.I accompanied her, for she refused to go anywhereto be lionized unless some one was with her, to bearthe brunt of the nonsense, as she phrased it. Shewas…
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