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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

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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

BY

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 THE HOSPITAL," &C., &C.

AND

MRS. MARY C. VAUGHAN.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY HENRY W. BELLOWS, D.D.,

President U. S. Sanitary Commission.

ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTEEN STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

ZEIGLER, McCURDY & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.; CHICAGO, ILL.; CINCINNATI, OHIO; ST. LOUIS, MO.

R. H. CURRAN,
48 WINTER STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

L. P. BROCKETT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of New York.

KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS,
607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

WESTCOTT & THOMSON, Stereotypers.

TO

THE LOYAL WOMEN OF AMERICA,

WHOSE PATRIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS, TOILS AND SACRIFICES, ENABLED THEIR
SISTERS, WHOSE HISTORY IS H