The Civil War in song and story; 1860-1865
Frank Moore
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...on, reading and doing the sentimental part of the nursing--soothing their brows--«T.il grapes--and jelly--and talking about thenmothers, and so on. "What do you think! j the rlegant;_ of the club, and red mustache, has been doing. Fcrgive me, if I have ever done thee any injustice, even in my thoughts. I do revere thee now. Seriously, has been doing the work of a hero. You know he has a gem of a little house up in Flax, so elegantly furnished, where he watches over his little children like a mothe:. Well, cou'd not leave his little brood to go ti the war; so all summer long ho bag sought ou» sick and wounded soldier.-!, taken them to his house, and there muted them. AJ1 his bed,s hs/e been filled, and during the manner be has nursed about a hundred men. "Ibere, who will say that war doss not develop fine virtues? You have heard, of course, that I im taking care of my country's toes, corns, and bunions, in the way of knitting stockings. I have sent ninety pain to the Quartermaster, four knit by my own fingers. 11 ire one hundred and ten pairs out, in process c." being knit. I am going to accomplish four hundred before I begin anything else. Helen is employed in collecting luxuries for the hospitals--jellies, farina, gelatin, &c. She will despatch a large box to-morrow, and still expects enough material for another. So you see ne are all, according to our ability, spending and beitg spent for our dear old mother country.. "One word more for our country, and I have done. We are at our wits' ends for blankets. With five hundred thousand men under arms in the Northern States, it is no easy thing to provide them all with blankets; and as this is no wool. growing country, there is no store or supply to lull back upon. 'Government ...