Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Miss Maertz” in chapter 23, page 390 of L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience:
...impressed with these evidences of her good, heroic womanhood, and her disinterested benevolence.
Recently he has procured a few particulars of her history, which will serve for a brief sketch.
Miss Maertz was born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1838.
Her parents were of German birth, and among the early settlers of the place.
From infancy she was of a delicate constitution, and
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