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Title: 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
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission Flags
Publisher: Hartford, A. D. Worthington and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rst upon the line. Hisactions upon those occasions were uneasy. Hewould turn his head anxiously from right to left,looking to see when the line was completed. Assoon as the regiment got ready, faced, and began tomarch, he would assume a steady and quiet de-meanor. He could always be seen a little above theheads of the soldiers, close by the flag. That posi-tion of honor was never disallowed him. At the battle of Farmington, May 9, 1862, themen were ordered to lie down on the ground. Theinstant they did so, Old Abe flew from his perch.He insisted on being protected as well as they, andflattened himself on the ground, remaining thereuntil the men rose, when, with outspread wings, heflew back to his place of peril, and held it until theclose of the contest. At the battle of Corinth therebel general Price discovered him, and ordered hismen to take him if they could not kill him, addingthat he would rather capture that bird than thewhole brigade. The bird was never so excited as 1 LATE Vll
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FAMOUS UNION BATTLE-FLAGS . Olil \he WMT-Ka^lo of the l)\U Win Hep t I. Ninth Iowa Hcgt _. SrcomI Knnsas \U\Uiy.V SetoMfi Wis Ho^t 4. Seventh MoHcol .> Setorui Kansas Him;? t t> Ku^l Oliio HaHtM-> //>/• /Jesrtiftfums sef pni/is •>/ h>). PHOTOGRAPHED AND PAINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL FLAGS EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK A 0 WORTHINOTON a r.rj PijBIiSMEBS HAPTr-ORP nONN army of the AMERICAN EAGLE. 627 during that battle. Flying from his perch to thelength of his chain, flapping his wings, with wide-open mouth, his screams could be heard in everylull of the battle. Mr. Sewell, a Chicago publisher, devised a veryoriginal mode of raising money for the sanitary fair,in connection with this war eagle. Pictures of thebird were struck off*, and offered for sale. A childthat sold one of these pictures for ten cents was tobe considered a private in the Army of the Ameri-can Eagle. One who sold a dollars worth was tobe commissioned as corporal. Five dollars made onefirst lieutenant; te

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