A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale.

  • Edge, Frederick Milnes.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale. 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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    CHAPTER III. The War Department and Government finally gave consent to tlie establishment of the proposed Commission, but reluctantly: seven-. teen days elapsed before the required authoriza- tion came from the Secretary of War, endorsed by the President as follows :— I approve the above.—A. Lincoln.'' The concluding para- graph of the document is suggestive. The Commission will exist until the Secretary of War shall othei-wise direct, unless sooner dissolved by its own action. The Commission was to exist on sufferance, unless it chose sooner to put an end to its own existence. This was the grimmest of grim jokes, for the delegates from New York in the interim of the seventeen days, had availed themselves of the opportunity to study the con- dition of affairs at head-quarters. The inves- tigation was very far from consoling, but it could scarcely have been otherwise than they found it. The United States army, under the