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1864 NASHVILLE, HARPERS FERRY LETTERS - CIVIL WAR NURSE
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Civil War Correspondence - Handwritten letters home from Union nurse, Annie [Bell] to her parents and sisters. The lot includes three letters from Annie - General Hospital [Harpers Ferry, n.d.], 4pp.,; Hospital No. 8, Nashville, Tennessee, Nov. 25, 1864, 8pp. and March 1, 1865, 2pp [brief]. - plus, one post-war letter, 1871, Phila, from her husband George E. Stubbs [Civil War surgeon at Nashville.] Four letters total. Of particular interest, Annie's Civil War era photo appears in the book, "Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America", by Jane E. Schultz, 2004. The caption notes that she is feeding an amputee in Hospital No. 8, Nashville. [See scan -- illustrative purposes only.]Excerpts: Harpers Ferry "At the Harpers Ferry depot met two of our men - convalescent patients who were on their way home from taking a crazy patient home"; "T were 12 regular lady nurses & many volunteers...They told us they had nice custards & pudding for the men every day."; "I have only three men who need much attention - we had 20 empty beds taken out this morning."; "T is considerable talk about the Reb's being near but I guess it is all talk." Hospital No. 8, Nashville "People think and talk of writing long letters of comfort to soldiers in the field & in the hospitals, but they seldom think of expending any sympathy on those who are willing to brave everything...that those same soldier's may live...they are exposed to all kind of disease - and often so weary that it seems that the poor aching frame must sink down and die.""I think running up and down these long stairs so many times a day does me harm."[Writer instrumental in planning and setting up Thanksgiving day feast] "The wonderful Thanksgiving dinner is over at last...The day before Thanksgiving I made up with my own hands dough enough to make dumplings for six hundred & fifty men and at the same time gave directions to 12 or 13 men, two ladies & my black Joanna." When the bugle blew for dinner "[I was]...all dressed in my new blue & green dress - with white apron.";"Every man got just as much as he wanted to eat.""...a sweet little fellow...[said] he loved me as much as he did his mother for having taken care of him in his sickness through the summer when we had all given him up to die."The letter by physician George E. Stubbs [1839-1909] notes that his practice is much better than it was - "people are getting vaccinated t is so much small pox", and Annie's poor health. Sent with cover to father-in-law, Martin Bell, Sabbath Rest, Blair Co., PA. Annie Bell [b. ABT 1839-post 1910], married George E. Stubbs in Sept. 1865. Stubbs, a physician, also served at Hospital No. 8, Nashville, during the Civil War. Annie's letters are only identified [signed], "Annie", but she is known to be Annie Bell [Stubbs.] Condition: 8pp. Nashville letter with centerfold splitting and portions of handwrting hard to read [majority legible]. Otherwise VG. The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.
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