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156 AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS.
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For It Is Some Certain Time That A More ...
there . These were subsequently published in the Boston Commonwealth newspaper , * and from these I propose to draw
for the remainder of this paper . THE AERIVAL OF THE WOUNDED FEOM FKEDERICKSBUBGL
the " hum The an first nose thing , and I met carried was it a reg by iment storm of . . the Cologne vilest , with odors its that three ever assaulted thousand
one evil savors had assured , was a me posy that -bed it to was it ; a and chroni the c worst weakness of this of affliction all hospitals was , , and every I myself must bear and it . premises I did , armed that like with my lavender friend water Sairy , with , I was which soon T so known besprinkled among
, 7 , excited my patients surgeons as ' the , bumped nurse with against the b bottle y mi . gratory Having coal been -hods run , water over -pails by , three and small boys ; nearly scalded by an avalanche of newly-filled teapots , and
b hopelessl y slow stages y entang up led stairs in a knot and down of colored , till sisters the main coming hall to was wash reached , I progressed , and I paused to take breath and a survey . There they were ! our brave boys /
with as the shot papers and justl shell y call so torn them and , for sh cowards atterednor could have hardl born y have e suffering been so for riddled which we cherish have each no name , brother with , an uncomplaining , fortitude , stretchers which made one in glad to
arms , some feebl as a y staggering . In along they came propped , some on on rude crutches , some , and one men lay 's stark before and they still carried with him covered face to , as the a comrade dead house gave . his All nam was e hurry to be and recorded con-
fusion ; the hall was full away of these wrecks of humanity , for the most exhausted with could rows not reach of such a bed as could till dul sit y ticketed the floor and covered registered with the ; the more walls disabled were lined the
feet _stejDS and and voices doorways made filled that with usuall , hel y quiet pers and hour lookers as noisy on , as -the noon sound , and of , in many , the
poor midst soul of it th all an , the the matron cordial ' s drau motherl ghts y she face administered brought more or comfort the cheery to m words any a that welcomed , all , making of the hospital a home . ,
desperatel " The si y g wounded ht of several occupant stretchers , entering , my each ward with , admonished its legless me , armless that I , was or of there then returned the . to doors The work to house the still , not path bore had to of their been wonder duty old a , hotel which or names weep before was some ; rather so hosp I not ital corked i a so s hard were inappropri up road needed my to ate feelings , travel and as mig many , ' just and ht
be imagined , for my ward was in truth ; a hall-room , if gun-shot wounds could christen it . Forty beds were prepared , many already tenanted by tired men
-who fell down anywhere , and drowsed till the smell of food roused them . gaunt Round and the pale great , mud stove to was the g knees athered , with the blood dreariest y bandage group s untouched I ever saw— since -ragged put ,
on days before , many bundled up in blankets , coats being lost or useless , and than all wearing any telegram _- _^ that disheartened of the Burnside look blunder which . proclaimed I pitied them defeat so , much more , I plainl dared y
rout not speak at Fredericks to them , though I felt , remembering readto be all handmai they had d been to the throug dreariest h since and the dirtiest of them all . , PresentlMiss y Blank tore me from my refuge behind
y , towels piles of , and one-sleevedshirts a block of brown , odd socks soap , bandages into my and hands lint , — with put these basin appalling , sponge ,
directions—: " ¦ ' Gome , my dear , begin to wash as fast as you can . Tell them to take
22 , * Bromfield The sketches Street _haye . since been published in a little volume by James Kepath , of Boston ,
156 American Women And Hospitals.
156 AMERICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/12/
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