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 90
been in Chicago for years,but my aged father was thought to bedying, and the stern speech of the telegram hadsummoned me to his bedside. It was a time ofextreme and unconcealed anxiety. The daily papersteemed with the dreary records of secession. TheSouthern press blazed with hatred of the… … 86 MY GOD ! NOW LET ME DIE! Every one was asking his neighbor, What will bethe end? but there was no answer, for over thewhole North the paralysis of death seemed to havesettled. The day after my arrival, came the news that FortSumter was attacked, which increased the feverishanxiety. The threats…
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