My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of Rebellion, with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War
by Livermore, Mary A
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington and Company. Good. 1889. Hardcover. Banded, tan full leather binding with black leather backstrip label rubbed at extremities; spine ends, board edges & corners frayed; backstrip abraded & leather along gutters split; boards scuffed & soiled; hinges cracked & front hinge separating, though textblock tight; owner's stamp & inked date on front paste-down; corner tips of a few leaves bent; leaf edges, paste-downs, endpapers & first few leaves foxed/smudged. ; Many good b&w ils.; 8vo; 700 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48800
- Title
- My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, during the War of Rebellion, with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War
- Author
- Livermore, Mary A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- A.D. Worthington and Company
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- American Civil War History, Antique Civil War Memoirs, Women in the American Civil War
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