Rebel Shell Bursting in Union Hospital My Story of War Livermore 1887 Engraving
An engraving from My Story of the War by Mary Livermore. In very good condition, measures about 8 1/2" x 5 1/4".
Engraved by J J Cade and published by A D Worthington & Co.
A REBEL SHELL BURSTING IN A UNION HOSPITAL.
DESIGNED BY F. O. C. DARLEY
"On the second day of the fight (Corinth), to her horror, her hospital came within range of the enemy's artillery, and the fearful missiles of death fell with fatal precision among her helpless men."
Mary Livermore narrated the story of this scene in her book My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience. Livermore was a paid employee for the U.S. Sanitary Commission Chicago branch. The U.S. Sanitary Commission was a U.S. government agency formed in 1861 to coordinate women's effort in war relief through hospital work and fundraising. As an inspector for the Sanitary Commission, Livermore visited hospitals throughout Illinois and the nation. She claimed Mary Safford to be one of most compassionate and beloved nurses in Cairo, and Union soldiers often called her the Cairo angel.
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