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Title: The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting. Personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Hancock; but owing to the difficulties of removal,and the efforts of the enemy, he could secure only eighteen.During the day Grant advanced his lines a mile towards thecourt-house, and repulsed Lee in all his counter-attacks. During the lull in the strife at Spottsylvania I spent a day inFredericksburg, visiting the hospitals. The city is a vast hospital; churches, public buildings, pri-vate dwellings, stores, chambers, attics, basements, all full.There are thousands upon the sidewalk. All day long theambulances have been arriving from the field. There are butfew wounded left at the front, those only whom to remove wouldbe certain death. A red flag has been flung out at the Sanitary Commissionrooms, — a white one at the rooms of the Christian Commis-sion. There are three hundred volunteer nurses in attendance.The Sanitary Commission have fourteen wagons bringing sup-plies from Belle Plain. The Christian Commission lias lesstransportation facilities, but in devotion, in hard work, in
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THE SANITARY COMMISSION IN THE HOSPITAL. 1864.) FROM THE RAPIDAN TO COLD HARBOR. 327 patient effort, it is the compeer of its more bountifully sup*plied neighbor. The nurses are divided into details, some forday service, some for night work. Each Stato has its ReliefCommittee. How patient the brave fellows are! Not a word of com-plaint, but thanks for the slightest favor. There was a lackof crutches. I saw an old soldier of the California regiment,who fought with the lamented Baker at Balls Bluff, and whohad been in more than twenty battles, hobbling about with thearms of a settee nailed to strips of board. His regiment wason its way home, its three years of service having expired. Itwas reduced to a score or two of weather-beaten, battle-scarredveterans. The disabled comrade could hardly keep back thetears as he saw them pass down the street. Few of us left.The bones of the boys are on every battle-field where the Armyof the Potomac has fought, said he. There was the sound of the pic

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