Notes of hospital life from November, 1861, to August, 1863

But what will become of our duties if we linger here so long; let us go now to our room and commence operations. Look before you. Do you know what that barricade at the door mea...

“That’s just it; she won’t believe what I say; thinks I’m fooling her, and pretending to be better than I really am; and has an idea they’re going to take my arm off, and I’m ke...

We always found ourselves more ready to sympathize with him in his grief, because he entered into every one else’s interests so warmly, whether of joy or sorrow. “That paper,” t...

While I am standing, looking and wondering, let me give you a little knowledge of him, as he appears in the wards. Some time since I was much struck, on coming to the hospital,...

That night, as I sat where the soft shadows of summer moonlight played peacefully in and out among grand old trees, my thoughts naturally clung to the scenes through which I had...

“It’s the typhoid, and as bad a case as ever I saw yet, and I’ve seen a heap of them, too. There he is, but he’s past speaking; he’ll never rouse again.”

Is it not that we have been--we are--a sinful people, pluming ourselves upon our powers, priding ourselves upon our prosperity, till we have come to look upon the fair beauty of...

She told me, in speaking of the last days of his life, that after I had left, and as death drew near, all that restlessness and irritability passed away, and that he lay calm an...

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of...

A bustling scene meets me at the door of our room. A busy group is crowded there; some kneeling on the floor, strapping knapsacks and blankets; some jumping into the well known...

Here was a practical suggestion--something to be acted upon at once, and far more useful than running to look at them, as they are carried in; so I return quickly, tell M. the d...