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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Mary J. Safford. (search)
re she underwent the severest treatment for the cure of the injury to the spine, occasioned by her life in the army and hospitals. The physicians subsequently prescribed travel, and she has been since that time in Europe. She is highly educated, speaks French and German as well as English, and some Italian. She is the most indomitable little creature living, heroic, uncomplaining, self-forgetful, and will yet die in harness. When the war broke out in Italy, she was in Florence, and at Madame Mario's invitation, immediately went to work to assist the Italian ladies in preparing for the sick and wounded of their soldiers. In Norway, she was devising ways and means to assist poor girls to emigrate to America, where they had relatives-and so everywhere. She must be counted among those who have given up health, and ultimately life for the country. We add also the following extracts from a letter from Cairo, published in one of the Chicago papers, early in the war. An angel at C