Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-fieldssubscription only by W.S. Williams & Company, 1865 - 384 páginas |
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... LEAVE OF ABSENCE - VISIT TO THE WILLIAMSBURG HOSPITALS- EFFECTIVE PREACHING - YORKTOWN REVISITED - LONGINGS- WHITE HOUSE LANDING - TIRED OF IDLENESS - PREPARATIONS TRAIN ΤΟ RETURN TO DUTY - STUART'S CAVALRY RAID - A FIRED INTO - FAIR ...
... LEAVE OF ABSENCE - VISIT TO THE WILLIAMSBURG HOSPITALS- EFFECTIVE PREACHING - YORKTOWN REVISITED - LONGINGS- WHITE HOUSE LANDING - TIRED OF IDLENESS - PREPARATIONS TRAIN ΤΟ RETURN TO DUTY - STUART'S CAVALRY RAID - A FIRED INTO - FAIR ...
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... leave- taking but it is too painful to dwell upon - the last fond word was spoken , the last embrace given , then ... leaving behind , I could only thank God that I was free and could go forward and work , and was not MOBS AT BALTIMORE ...
... leave- taking but it is too painful to dwell upon - the last fond word was spoken , the last embrace given , then ... leaving behind , I could only thank God that I was free and could go forward and work , and was not MOBS AT BALTIMORE ...
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... leaving room to pass between the beds . In the center of the tent stands a temporary board table , on which are kept books , medicines , et cetera . The hospital corps consists of a surgeon , an assist- ant surgeon , a hospital steward ...
... leaving room to pass between the beds . In the center of the tent stands a temporary board table , on which are kept books , medicines , et cetera . The hospital corps consists of a surgeon , an assist- ant surgeon , a hospital steward ...
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... leave ? Oh , we hoped so , and were anxiously looking for her . The ambulances started with their freight of emaciated , suffering men . Slowly that long train wound its way toward the city looking like a great funeral procession , and ...
... leave ? Oh , we hoped so , and were anxiously looking for her . The ambulances started with their freight of emaciated , suffering men . Slowly that long train wound its way toward the city looking like a great funeral procession , and ...
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... leaving camp , and they found by sad experience , that they were not the most comfortable things to march in , as their poor blistered feet testified ; in many cases their feet were literally raw , the thick woolen stockings having ...
... leaving camp , and they found by sad experience , that they were not the most comfortable things to march in , as their poor blistered feet testified ; in many cases their feet were literally raw , the thick woolen stockings having ...
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ambulance Aquia Creek arms army arrived artillery batteries battle battle of Williamsburg began boys brave camp carried Centerville chaplain cheerful Chickahominy christian Colonel command comrades contraband dark darkie dead death despatch duty dying enemy eyes face Fair Oaks faithful Federal feel feet field fight fire Fort Magruder Fortress Monroe friends gone guard guns hands Harrison's Landing headquarters heard heart heaven horse hospital hour James River looked Malvern Hill Massa McClellan ment miles morning Nellie night noble nurses o'clock officers passed patient poor Potomac prayer rebel regiment retreat returned Richmond ride road rode scene seemed sent shell shot sick side sleep soldiers soon spirit stood suffering surgeon tell tent thing thought thousand tion told troops turned typhoid fever Union army victory Washington Williamsburg Willie L wounded Yankees Yorktown
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Página 347 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Página 144 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on! In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 347 - My Dear General: I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition...
Página 347 - When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong.
Página 195 - I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reinforcements so vigorously. I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here, and the ground will' admit the passage of artillery.
Página 103 - Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be, The tears of Love were hopeless, but for thee! If in that frame no deathless spirit dwell, If that faint murmur be the last farewell, If Fate unite the faithful but to part, Why is their memory sacred to the heart ? Why does the brother of my childhood seem Restored a while in every pleasing dream?
Página 162 - God knows best! he was somebody's love: Somebody's heart enshrined him there; Somebody wafted his name above, Night and morn, on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave, and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay; Somebody clung to his parting hand.
Página 194 - Wake in our breasts the living fires, The holy faith that warmed our sires; Thy hand hath made our Nation free ; To die for her is serving Thee.
Página 144 - I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Página 67 - ... the likeness of anything in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.