Adventures of an army nurse in two wars / edited from the diary and correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness von Olnhausen, by James Phinney Munroe.

  • Mary Phinney von Olnhausen
Date:
1903
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Credit: Adventures of an army nurse in two wars / edited from the diary and correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness von Olnhausen, by James Phinney Munroe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    men naturally bad? That’s going to be the only religious question I shall study in the future. I guess this war will make me religious, for one. I am getting a good deal more patient and for- giving than I used to be, but I ’ll never forgive the soldiers’ enemies. I can sooner forgive the Rebels who kill them. You wonder the boys don’t answer the notes [written by Lexington ladies and sent with the clothing] ; you don’t know how modest they feel. Then, too, I suppose many of them are not much used to writing. Moreover, they had some rebuffs from that Miss ; she wrote to them and they answered; and then she thought she would be motherly, advise them about theii spelling, etc., and that mortified them. Of course the letters were shown all around, so it s given them all a holy horror of writing to strange women. Blue Eyes, my pet boy, leaves me to-morrow; he is too lovely, so confiding and sweet; he is to be discharged. I suppose he cannot walk for a long time, though his wound is quite healed. I shall be bluer than ever when he goes. T., too, goes home to-morrow. I never have told you about him; he is too mean to live. He is dread- fully mad they gave him his discharge; says he meant to stay round the hospital this summer, as it’s the easiest way to get $13 a month. He s the first mean Massachusetts man I’ve met.
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