slavery and the close of the fratricidal war, and will, doubtless, place the United States in the lead of all Christian nations of the earth.
Snow Hill, Md., June 23, 1911.
Mrs. John A. Logan,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mrs. Logan:
I am sure your book, "The Part Taken by Women in American History," is just what patriotic societies and patriotic homes want.
Not only the women, but the men will read what our fore-mothers did and dared, that the nation might be truly great, and a new spirit of patriotism will be aroused and urge them to better and higher things for the coming generations and for our great and united country.
I congratulate you upon your work.
Sincerely yours,
National Patriotic Instructor, W. R. C.
Women Nurses of the Civil War.
Introduction by Mrs. John A. Logan.
The hospitals established by the Empress Helena in the fifth century were an evidence of Christian feeling; and it was the same Christianity and humanity which actuated Margaret Fuller and Florence Nightingale when in Italy and in the Crimean War they nursed the wounded soldiers. That same Christian spirit sent women, young and old, grave and gay, to the hospitals where our "Boys in Blue" needed their assistance. Bravely they wrought, and often bravely they fell
