Original Papers, 6. numberWisconsin History Commission, 1911 - 190 pages Papers relating to the part taken by the State of Wisconsin in the Civil War. |
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Page 25 - ... detailed description may not be out of place. It was a small bag or needle-case containing half a dozen assorted needles, a skein of white cotton, a skein of black linen thread, half a dozen horn or porcelain shirt buttons, a dozen trouser buttons, a small ball of yarn, a darning needle, and a few pins. B0 Occasionally some careful mother or wife would add a small bottle of cayenne pepper, a package of court-plaster, or perhaps a bottle of quinine, which was thought at that time to be a panacea...
Page 59 - The maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though Heaven alone records the tear. And Fame shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field of glory!
Page 59 - The wife who girds her husband's sword, Mid little ones who weep or wonder, And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle ! The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain...
Page 2 - It is your country and your government, as well as theirs, that Is now in danger, and you can give strength and courage and warm sympathies and cheering words to those who go to do battle for all that Is dear to us here. Bitter as the parting may be to many, I am assured that you will bid them go bravely forward for God and Liberty, to " return with their shields, or on them.
Page 59 - Mid little ones who weep or wonder, And bravely speaks the cheering word, — What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly, in her dreams, to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle. The mother who conceals her grief, While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she presses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy...
Page 42 - They filled the depot ; they overflowed upon the sidewalk ; they encroached even upon the street in front of the Commission rooms. As fast as they arrived they were forwarded, and their places occupied by others. Milwaukee, West Milwaukee...
Page 80 - I tell mother," said the Annie referred to, standing very erect, with flashing eyes, " that as long as the country can't get along without grain, nor the army fight without food, we're serving the country just as much here in the harvest-field as our boys are on the battle-field — and that sort o' takes the edge off from this business of doing men's work, you know.
Page 107 - They will not go until they are compelled, and many brave it out and die in camp. I really believe they are more comfortable and better cared for in camp, with their comrades, than in hospital. The food is the same in both places, and the medical treatment the same when there is any. In the hospital the sick men lie on rotten straw; in the camp we provide clean hemlock or pine boughs, with the stems cut out, or husks, when we can »' jerk " them from a " secesh " cornfield. In the hospital the nurses...
Page 144 - He shall be chief executive officer of the hospital, and shall devote all his time and attention to his duties; he shall exercise entire control over all the subordinate officers; he shall employ all employees and assistants necessarily connected with the institution below the grade designated in the by-laws as officers; and may discharge any officer, assistant or employee at will, being responsible to the board for the proper exercise of that duty in regard to officers.
Page 109 - Some of them were women of the truest refinement and culture; and day after day they quietly and patiently worked, doing, by order of the surgeon, things which not one of those gentlemen would have dared to ask of a woman whose male relative stood able and ready to defend her and report him. I have seen small white hands scrubbing floors, washing windows, and performing all menial offices. I have known women, delicately cared for at home, half fed in hospitals, hard worked day and night, and given,...