History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 Volume 5 - Softcover
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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. 1920 Excerpt: ... cot to cot almost without stopping, except to talk to some, read to others, or write letters for them; occasionally giving medicine or brandy, etc., according to order. Then comes dinner, which we serve out ourselves, feeding those who can't feed themselves.... I am astonished at the cheerful devotion--whole-souled and whole-bodied devotion--of the surgeon and medical students attached to this boat.... It is not a battle which destroys so many lives as it is the terrible decimating diseases brought on by exposure and hardships and the climate of marshes and watercourses. The majority of the cases of illness which I have seen were men who dropped exhausted from the army on its march...." It is false that "a lady must put away all delicacy and refinement for this work. It is not too much to sa' that delicacy and refinement and the fact of being a gentlewoman could never teU more than they do here." Miss Wormeley speaks of Olmsted as a'man " who knows everything." Word came that a hundred sick some distance off were "dying in the rain." Volunteers went after them. This is her comment when the sick men were brought on the supply boat: "Any one who looks over such a deck as that, and sees the suffering, despondent attitudes of the men, and their worn frames and faces, knows what war is, better than the sight of wounds can teach it.... I hope people will continue to sustain the Sanitary Commission. Hundreds of lives are being saved by it. I have seen with my own eyes in one week fifty men who must have died without it, and many more who probably would have done so.... I like Mr. Olmsted exceedingly, autocrat and aristocrat that he is; I feel that he would protect and guard in the wisest manner those under his care.... He i...
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- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1154082555
- ISBN 13 9781154082555
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten174
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