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 687
tive is a selfish one,for I hope to bring to myself a speedy re-^^ 1/ ply — one of your long spicy letters, full ofr news and gossip, and pleasant things aboutmy negligent friends of the West Side. I have just witnessed a hospital picnic. It is anew thing for maimed and sick men to participate… … we are the stump squad! 683 some of the most brutal, bestial and devilish quali-ties lurking in the human race, it has also shown ushow much of the angel there is in the best men andwomen — has reconvinced me that man, with thepropensities of the lower creation still lingering inhim, is yet divine,…
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