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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 2 0 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 1.9 (search)
of the Southern States, with Practical Information of the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs. A large number of copies was printed, and the book supplied to the medical officers and all others who made application. Field and temporary hospitals: the surgeon in the field Deering J. Roberts, M. D.,, Surgeon, Confederate States Army Prayer with the wounded after Spotsylvania The photographer of May, 1864, preserved a moment breathing the devout spirit of Millets Angelus. the Surgeon's assistants, heads bared, and the nurse stand in reverent attitudes; the wounded lie listening on the ground; while a chaplain pours out a prayer to the Almighty that the lives of the stricken soldiers before him may be spared. Rough surgery in the field: Federal wounded on Marye's heights This is war. The man in the foreground will never use his right arm again. Never again will the man on the litter jump or run. It is sudden, the transition from marching bravely at m
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Field and temporary hospitals: the surgeon in the field (search)
Field and temporary hospitals: the surgeon in the field Deering J. Roberts, M. D.,, Surgeon, Confederate States Army Prayer with the wounded after Spotsylvania The photographer of May, 1864, preserved a moment breathing the devout spirit of Millets Angelus. the Surgeon's assistants, heads bared, and the nurse stand in reverent attitudes; the wounded lie listening on the ground; while a chaplain pours out a prayer to the Almighty that the lives of the stricken soldiers before him may be spared. Rough surgery in the field: Federal wounded on Marye's heights This is war. The man in the foreground will never use his right arm again. Never again will the man on the litter jump or run. It is sudden, the transition from marching bravely at morning on two sound legs, grasping your rifle in two sturdy arms, to lying at nightfall under a tree with a member forever gone. But it is war. The usual treatment of an ordinary wound during the Civil War consisted in shaving the par
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, The life of birds (search)
en, at length, a Veery's delicious note rose in a fountain of liquid melody from beneath me; and when it was ended, the clear, calm, interrupted chant of the Wood-Thrush fell like solemn water-drops from some source above. I am acquainted with no sound in Nature so sweet, so elevated, so serene. Flutes and flageolets are Art's poor efforts to recall that softer sound. It is simple, and seems all prelude; but the music to which it is the overture belongs to other spheres. It might be the Angelus of some lost convent. It might be the meditation of some maiden-hermit, saying over to herself in solitude, with recurrent tuneful pauses, the only song she knows. Beside this soliloquy of seraphs, the carol of the Veery seems a familiar and almost domestic thing; yet it is so charming that Audubon must have designed to include this among the Thrushes whose merits he proclaims. But the range of musical perfection is a wide one; and if the standard of excellence be that wondrous brillia