Woman's Work in the Civil War, by

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Title: Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

Author: Linus Pierpont Brockett Mary C. Vaughan

Commentator: Henry W. Bellows

Release Date: June 18, 2007 [EBook #21853]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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[Illustration: MISS CLARA H. BARTON. Eng. by John Sartain.]

[Illustration: WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CIVIL WAR

"'SHOOT, IF YOU MUST, THIS OLD GRAY HEAD. BUT SPARE YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG,' SHE SAID." Barbara Frietchie.

H. L. Stephens, Del. Samuel Sartain, Sc.]

WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CIVIL WAR:

A RECORD OF HEROISM, PATRIOTISM AND PATIENCE

L. P. BROCKETT, M.D.,

AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR," "PHILANTHROPIC RESULTS OF THE WAR," "OUR GREAT CAPTAINS," "LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN," "THE CAMP, THE BATTLE FIELD, AND

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