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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 799

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little aid hadreached here. We worked most of the day in carryingthe wounded—and many there were—to the Red Crossstation on rude, improvised stretchers. The misery wesaw everywhere cannot be imagined. Only a few hun- 1149 1150 THE LETTER-BOX dred souls now remain from the former five thousand.That… … at night. We procured water for the injured from astream and distributed bread among them. Next morn-ing fresh parties arrived and helped in carrying theunfortunates to the railroad. At noon, being almostexhausted with fatigue and having witnessed numbersof heartbreaking scenes, we made our way in…

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