songs and stories of a civil war hospital

A model hospital was erected, and each member had accepted an honorable post therein. An hour's conversation on the subject set the whole family in a blaze of enthusiasm. They all wear rose-colored spectacles, and are lineal descendants of the inventor At first sight not a foot of it appeared, but that didn't matter, for the Periwinkles are a hopeful race their crest is an anchor, with three cock-a-doodles crowing atop. 'Go nurse the soldiers,' said my young brother, Tom, panting for 'the tented field.' 'Turn actress, and immortalize your name,' said sister Vashti, striking an attitude.

'Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission,' said sister Joan, home on a visit. 'No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough.'

'Try teaching again,' suggested my mother. 'Write a book,' quoth the author of my being. This remark being addressed to the world in general, no one in particular felt it their duty to reply so I repeated it to the smaller world about me, received the following suggestions, and settled the matter by answering my own inquiry, as people are apt to do when very much in earnest. Should the sale of the little book be large, the orphan's percentage will be doubled. As, besides paying the Author the usual copyright, the publisher has resolved to donate at least five cents for every copy sold to the support of orphans made fatherless or homeless by the war, no reproduction of any part of the contents now first printed in these pages, will be permitted in any journal. The sudden popularity the Sketches won from the general public, and the praise they received from literary men of distinguished ability, are sufficient reasons,–were any needed,–for their re-publication, thus revised and enlarged, in this more convenient and permanent form. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.Ī considerable portion of this volume was published in successive numbers of The Commonwealth, newspaper, of Boston. 'Which, naming no names, no offence could be took.'– Sairy Gamp.Įntered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by James Redpath, Publisher, 221 Washington Street,

Songs and stories of a civil war hospital