Our army nurses : interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war / Compiled by Mary A. Gardner Holland.

  • Mary G. Holland
Date:
1895
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Credit: Our army nurses : interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war / Compiled by Mary A. Gardner Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is, flashing from their pages, incitement to self-sacrifice and heroism for other phases of life ; while gratitude spontane- ously wreathes her garland for these devoted women. Not alone to the soldier of the Union does this hook appeal. Wherever men and women are thankful for a Republic saved to a glorious future, there these stories told by army nurses will be welcome. Wherever a student of history desires to know the full explanation of the enthusiasm with which the Northern armies fought their great battles, in this book he will find something of an answer. What these women did on the field of carnage and amidst terrible conditions, discloses the spirit pervad- ing the people of the North. They were willing to dare everything for the sake of union and liberty. The following pages will also prove fragrant with the blossoms of compassion. If Christian civilization must have its wars, greatly for defense, it is something to be able to record the tender ministrations which alleviate many horrors. The army nurses were ministers of light and love, passing and repassing over the dark scenes of these stormy years. This book, which has been compiled by Miss Holland, herself an army nurse, is like a gath- ered sheaf of precious harvesting. Let us remember that there were many women unknown and unfamed who did faithful service. Yet their glory is a part with these whose names we read with pride in this volume. No one can peruse this suggestive, inspiring work without rising at the end with deep admiration, quickened patriotism, and a stronger faith in human kind. O Rev. Edward A. IIortox. Boston, Mass.
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