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71. A Model Hospital
Sunday, January 29th, 1865.—HAVE been in Armory-square this afternoon. The wards are very comfort...
70. The Blue Everywhere
THIS city, its suburbs, the capitol, the front of the White House, the places of amusement, the A...
69. Army Surgeons—Aid Deficiencies
I MUST bear my most emphatic testimony to the zeal, manliness, and professional spirit and capaci...
68. A Case from Second Bull Run
WELL, poor John Mahay is dead. He died yesterday. His was a painful and long-lingering case, (see...
67. Items from My Note Books
SOME of the half-eras’d, and not over-legible when made, memoranda of things wanted by one patien...
66. Gifts—Money—Discrimination
AS a very large proportion of the wounded came up from the front without a cent of money in their...
65. A Glimpse of War’s Hell Scenes
IN one of the late movements of our troops in the valley, (near Upperville, I think,) a strong fo...
64. Deserters
Oct. 24.—SAW a large squad of our own deserters, (over 300) surrounded with a cordon of arm’d gua...
63. Union Prisoners South
MICHAEL STANSBURY, 48 years of age, a sea-faring man, a southerner by birth and raising, formerly...
62. A Yankee Soldier
AS I turn’d off the Avenue one cool October evening into Thirteenth street, a soldier with knapsa...
61. Hospital Scenes—Incidents
IT is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very silent through the ward. I...
60. Death of a Hero
I WONDER if I could ever convey to another—to you, for instance, reader dear—the tender and terri...
59. A New Army Organization Fit for America
IT is plain to me out of the events of the war, north and south, and out of all considerations, t...
58. Summer of 1864
I AM back again in Washington, on my regular daily and nightly rounds. Of course there are many s...
57. Virginia
DILAPIDATED, fenceless, and trodden with war as Virginia is, wherever I move across her surface, ...
56. Rumors, Changes, &c
ABOUT the excitement of Sunday, and the orders to be ready to start, I have heard since that the ...
55. Paying the Bounties
ONE of the things to note here now is the arrival of the paymaster with his strong box, and the p...
54. Down at the Front
CULPEPPER, VA., Feb. ’64.—HERE I am pretty well down toward the extreme front. Three or four days...
53. Hospital Perplexity
TO add to other troubles, amid the confusion of this great army of sick, it is almost impossible ...
52. Cattle Droves about Washington
AMONG other sights are immense droves of cattle with their drivers, passing through the streets o...