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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 : with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary services of the war
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission Flags -- United States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t were confident theyshould find friends, as they had done all alongthe route. All were provided for long before theyreached Boston; for the people on the train becameinfected with generosity and patriotism, and freelygave whatever money was needed. While I was in Boston, an instrument of slavetorture was on exhibition, such as (N^orthern peoplehad often heard described, but in whose existencefew believed. It was shown at the art rooms ofWilliams and Everett, on Washington Street, andseemed fearfully out of place amid the pictures, stat-uary, and bric-a-brac, of the handsome rooms. It wasa rough, heavy iron collar, weighing half a dozenpounds, from which three curved prongs rose, with ajoint at the back, and closed in front with a rivet. It was taken from the neck of a slave girl, nearXew Orleans, by Captain S. T. Reed, of the ThirdMassachusetts Cavalry. The girl was about eighteenyears of age, quite white, — an octoroon, — and verybeautiful. She had attempted to run away; and, as
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