The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-06-30
MARY A. LIVERM0RE.
HER STORY OF THE WAR"
A Thrilling Volume Of a Woman's Expert
ences in the Great Rebellion.

MY STORY OF THE wAR:-A womau's Mar
rative of Four Years Personal Experience as
Nurse in the Union Army and in Relief Work
at Home, ETC.. etc. Hartford: A. d. Worth
ington g. Co., Publishers. svo, 700 PIP. Illus
trated. Sold by subscription, $3.50.
This finely illustrated work is just
now issued from the press. 1t is one
of the most dramatic and thrilling
books yet published on the war. Mrs.
Livermore was more or less connected
with the Union Army for the entire
four years of the Rebellion. She was
almost the head and front of the
United States Sanitary Commission
which accomplished such heavenly
work among the sick, wounded and
dying soldiers.
Mary A. Livermore left happy
home, beloved and devoted family, to
give up time. talents, energies to the
relief of the sick and wounded through
all those memorable four years. This
book contains the story Of what she
saw and felt and knew of that desper-
ate and bloody struggle. Dramatic
power, pathos, humor are about equal
ly mingled on every page. Her expert
ences on the Mississippi river, when or
dered by Secretary Stanton to make a
tour of the hospitals there, are faith
fully and wildly chronicled. During
a trip to Vicksburg she saw, and called
Gen. Grants attention to the fact, that
his entire army was threatened by
scurvy. She saw that the men must
have vegetables and anti-scorbutics.
Mrs. Livermore returned to Chicago,
organized the great Sanitary Fair aud
advertised for supplies. On the open
ing day of the fair procession of
farmers wagons three miles long filed
into the city filled with potatoes onions
and all kinds of vegetables. They did
not come as to gala day parade; the
wagons were draped in black and the
women dressed in mourning when they
halted in front of Mrs. Livermore's res
idence on their way to the fair. The
cash receipts were over one hundred
thousand dollars. Thousands Of tons
of vegetables were forwarded to Grants
army and all danger of scu1vy disap-
peared.
The story of Mother Bickerdyke is
told here for the first time in most
graphic form and with infinite pathos.
Mrs. Bickerdyke's experiences at Chat
tanooga, where for four months she
was the only woman in the hospital,
with the care of eighteen hundred
wounded, sick, starved, dying soldiers,
are told with thrilling interest. In
reading the pages of this grand book
ones eyes are often filled with tears
and the old heart-ache of more than
twenty years ago comes back again for
the moment.
Mrs. Livermore is one of the most
popular, talented, and best known
women of the times. Her popularity
will not suffer by the publication of
the book. 1t is richly bound in red
morocco, stamped and ornamented with
gilt letters. There is a fine steel plate
portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Besides this the book is illustrated
with several full-page steel engravings
from original designs, and fine chrome
lit lograph plates Of battle flags. 1t is
a book to be read by everybody and
thoroughly enjoyed.
We give by permission of the publish
ers the following extracts from an ad-
vance copy of the work. Our readers
will be sure to enjoy these thrilling
narratives, and if the reading whets the
appetite for more, we urge the purchase
of the volume.