MOTHER BICKERDYKE, HER LIFE AND LABORS…..SKETCHES OF BATTLE SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF SANITARY SERVICE

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Item Code: 804-129

By Margaret B. Davis. Published for the benefit of M.A. Bickerdyke.  Printed and sold by A.T. Dewey, San Francisco, 1886. 166 pp. Blue glazed cloth, 7.75 x 5.25”, w/gilt cover lettering. Exhibits light wear at the extremities. Else VG.  Mother Bickerdyke was the legendary nurse of the Western Union armies, of whom Gen. Sherman once remarked, “She outranks me.” Solid collectible.

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