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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The death of John West Virginia blacksmith. (search)
The death of John, the West Virginia blacksmith.
Miss L. M. Alcott, the accomplished daughter of A. B. Alcott, the Concord philosopher, and the bosom friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was for a time a nurse in one of the hospitals for the wounded in the vicinity of Washington, D. C. She subsequently published a little volume, entitled Hospital sketches, in which the life, heroism, and death of some of our brave fellows, wounded in the struggle for the nation's life, are portrayed with a graphic power which has never been surpassed.
Among these descriptions of life and death in the hospital, none surpasses, in beauty and pathos, the story of John, the West Virginia Blacksmith.
Miss Alcott is in one of the wards of the hospital, ministering to the sick, when a messenger from another ward comes in with the expected yet dreaded message:
John is going, ma'am, and wants to see you if you can come.
The moment this boy is asleep; tell him so, and let me know if I am in danger o