Under the guns

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Cordially Yours Annie Wittenmyer

UNDER THE GUNS A WOMAN’S REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR

BY MRS. ANNIE WITTENMYER Author of “Woman’s Work for Jesus,” “A Jewelled Ministry,” “History of the Temperance Crusade,” “The Women of the Reformation,” an Historical Work, Etc.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. GENERAL U. S. GRANT

BOSTON, MASS. E. B. STILLINGS & CO., PUBLISHERS 55 SUDBURY STREET 1895

TO THE ARMY NURSES OF OUR RECENT CIVIL WAR, WHO WALKED AS ANGELS OF MERCY ON MANY BATTLE-FIELDS, AND MINISTERED TO THE SICK, WOUNDED, AND DYING, IN LOATHSOME, OVER-CROWDED HOSPITALS; AND TO THE NOBLE WOMEN OF IOWA WHO SO GENEROUSLY SUSTAINED ME IN MY ARMY WORK; AND TO THE PATRIOTIC WOMEN OF AMERICA WHO SENT THEIR HUSBANDS, BROTHERS, AND SONS TO THE DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY WITH A DEVOTION AND COURAGE EQUAL TO THAT OF ANY GRECIAN MOTHER OR ROMAN MATRON, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.