Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps and Battle-fields |
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... thoughts which occupied my mind . It was not my inten- tion , or desire , to seek my own personal ease and comfort while so much sorrow and distress filled the land . But the great question to be decided , was , what can I do ? What ...
... thoughts which occupied my mind . It was not my inten- tion , or desire , to seek my own personal ease and comfort while so much sorrow and distress filled the land . But the great question to be decided , was , what can I do ? What ...
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... thought of it myself - among all my schemes for alleviating the sufferings of these men , it had never entered into my head to beg for them . We decided to go to Georgetown first and if we succeeded there , to canvass Washington . So we ...
... thought of it myself - among all my schemes for alleviating the sufferings of these men , it had never entered into my head to beg for them . We decided to go to Georgetown first and if we succeeded there , to canvass Washington . So we ...
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... thought fit to make my business known to the doctor , and the conse- quence was , half a dozen bottles of blackberry wine and two of lemon syrup , with a cordial in- vitation to call again . So prospered our mission throughout the day ...
... thought fit to make my business known to the doctor , and the conse- quence was , half a dozen bottles of blackberry wine and two of lemon syrup , with a cordial in- vitation to call again . So prospered our mission throughout the day ...
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... thought that many , very many , of those enthu- siastic men who appeared so eager to meet the enemy , would never return to relate the success or defeat of that splendid army . Even if victory should perch upon their banners , and I had ...
... thought that many , very many , of those enthu- siastic men who appeared so eager to meet the enemy , would never return to relate the success or defeat of that splendid army . Even if victory should perch upon their banners , and I had ...
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... thought I'd cook ' em ' fore dey sp'il'd " ; and then added , with a broad grin , " I aint no thief , I aint . " Col. R. replied : " That will do , Jack , you can go now . " Then the Colonel told us how he had seen Jack running out of a ...
... thought I'd cook ' em ' fore dey sp'il'd " ; and then added , with a broad grin , " I aint no thief , I aint . " Col. R. replied : " That will do , Jack , you can go now . " Then the Colonel told us how he had seen Jack running out of a ...
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Page 144 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: As ye deal...
Page 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.
Page 277 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 144 - I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. 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.
Page 315 - 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.
Page 211 - In addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak.
Page 211 - I know that a few thousand more men would have changed this defeat to a victory. As it is, the Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. " I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost.
Page 296 - Fightings without, and fears within, Since we assembled last ! But out of all the Lord Hath brought us by his love ; And still he doth his help afford, And hides our life above.
Page 67 - ... the likeness of anything in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Page 146 - Banks before him ; precisely in what force we cannot tell. He is also threatening Leesburg, and Geary on the Manassas Gap railroad, from both north and south ; in precisely what force we cannot tell. I think the movement is a general and concerted one, such as would not be if he was acting upon the purpose of a very desperate defence of Richmond.