Hospital pencillings : being a diary while in Jefferson General Hospital, Jeffersonville, Ind., and others at Nashville, Tennessee, as matron and visitor.

  • Powers, Elvira J.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hospital pencillings : being a diary while in Jefferson General Hospital, Jeffersonville, Ind., and others at Nashville, Tennessee, as matron and visitor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    passes before the cars started. Quite a number of citizens were left as usual, and as we were moving off I heard one young man exclaim in desperation that he would go right back to the city and marry. The gentlemen congratulated themselves upon their good fortune, and the subject elicited the following incidents: A gentleman of Mr. M.'s acquaintance could get no admis- sion to the cars, no lady would take him under her care, and he asked the baggage agent if he might get in the baggage car. That functionary said he had orders to admit no one. *' Then you'll not give me permission, but if I get in will you put me out ? No answer was made, but the agent walked away, and the man, thinking like children, that silence gives consent, en- tered the baggage car and remained. Another gentleman, a merchant of Bowling Green, by name F— C—, could get no chance to ride. But fortunately having on a blue coat, in desperation he stepped up to a man with the two bars on his shoulder who was jDuttiug his sol- diers aboard, and said with a pleading look and tone: Captain, can't you lengthen out my furlough just two days longer ? '*No, said the Captain, in a quick authoritative tone, you've been loafing 'round these streets long enough, in with you, and he made a motion as if he would materially assist his entrance if he didn't hurry. Well, if I must I must, but its hai'd, Captain. ^ No more words, was the short reply, in with you. Another was related by an eye witness. A lady who was travelling alone was about stej^ping into the car, when a gen- tleman, who was trembling with anxiety lest he should be left, stepped uj) and offered to take her box. He did so, and stepping in behind was allowed a seat by her side, cautiously