A few words with the convalescent / by John F.W. Ware.

  • John F. W. Ware
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A few words with the convalescent / by John F.W. Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the private in this war is a man from the home, al- ways their equal, often their superior. If they abuse their authority, as they sometimes do; if they are cruel in their neglect, and make you trouble by their ignorance; be sure the home knows it and remembers it, and when their brief authority is over, and they are on the simple level and equality of manhood again, all this will return with fearful usury upon them. Try to bear all to-day. You have trials and privations, hardship, and sometimes injus- tice. But keep a good heart. The man who bears up, works his way through things that break the man who gives up. It is hard to be laid aside, to feel that the neglect of company officers deprives you of your pay, and your families of their support, that the strange de- lay in the department deprives you of your fur- lough or discharge. It is hard even to suspect that you are considered of no moment, now that you can no longer serve. All this we at home know and realize. But it will never do for you to lose your just pride, your brave heart, — never do to give up. Y’ou are soldiers. You bear the scar of service. The disease, the wound, the disability, is a badge of honor. Every true heart recognizes it. You have borne up under the trials and disasters of the field. With indomitable will you have overcome the diffi- culties before and about you. Y'ou have not quailed under the call of duty. Why quail now? Why
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