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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 618

An illustration from 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, leaf 618 — I observed, standing outside thelittle group of acquaintances who sur-rounded me, a white-haired, elderly woman, whoapproached me with the following inquiry: — Do you remember writing a letter for John , of the Twelfth Michigan, w^hen he lay dying in theOverton Hospital, at Memphis, in the spring… … 614 your letter saved us. war, when at the front or in the hospitals, that it washardly possible for me to recall any individual case. Drawing from her pocket a letter, that had beenworn in pieces where it had been folded, and whichwas sewed together with fine cotton, she held it upto me. Do you…

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