Reminiscences of an army nurse during the Civil War

1831 Adelaide W Smith 1911
ADELAIDE·W·SMITH INDEPENDENT VOLUNTEER
GREAVES PUBLISHING COMPANY New York MCMXI
Dedication
To the Boys in Blue 1861-1865;
and to those brave women who, with smiling faces and breaking hearts, sent them forth to save their country and their homes, while they themselves toiled in fields and elsewhere, waiting to welcome home too many who never returned; and to that band of heroic devoted women, many of whom left luxurious homes for the discomforts and privations of hospital life, and died, self-sacrificing patriots of the war, this true story is affectionately dedicated.
A. W. S.
COPYRIGHT 1911 BY ADELAIDE W. SMITH
YORK PRINTING COMPANY YORK, PA.
This story, devoid of literary pretensions, is a simple narration of day by day experiences, as they came to me, during five years of volunteer work in hospitals of the Civil War.
At the risk of some slight repetition, it has been thought best to include “Recollections of Lincoln” and “Love in Camp” practically as they were when published separately.
I wish to express my high appreciation and thanks for the confidence and encouragement of those friends who thought the book should be written that the younger generations may know something of the work done by women during the war.