NOTES
OF
HOSPITAL LIFE
FROM NOVEMBER, 1861, TO AUGUST, 1863.
“Je viens de faire un ouvrage.”
“Comment! un livre?”
“Non; pas un livre; je ne suis pas si bête!”
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1864.
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 Pennsylvania.
| Page | |
| Dedication, | v |
| Introduction by Bishop Potter, | vii |
| Preface, | xi |
| Introduction, | 17 |
| Our Daily Work, | 23 |
| A Morning at the Hospital, | 38 |
| The Two Armies, | 43 |
| The Contrast, | 47 |
| Browning, | 63 |
| Brown, | 69 |
| Darlington, | 75 |
| “Little Corning,” | 93 |
| Gavin, | 105 |
| Christmas at the U. S. A. Hospital, ——, ——, | 114 |
| Poor José, | 128 |
| Robinson, | 139 |
| The Return to the Regiment, | 157 |
| A Visit to the Wards, | 168 |
| Our Gettysburg Men, | 193 |
TO
THE PRIVATES
OF THE
Army of the United States;
WHOSE
DARING IN DANGER;
PATIENCE IN PRIVATION;
SELF-SACRIFICE IN SUFFERING;
AND LOYALTY IN LOVE FOR THEIR COUNTRY,
HAVE GIVEN TO THE W