Ned M Campbell

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The climax of her account of the Battle of Antietam in her “Work and Incidents” lecture was the moment she opened the farmhouse door of a field hospital she had driven up to with her supplies. There she beheld Dr. James L. Dunn, whom she had assisted at the Battle of Culpeper by cooking soup and supplying shirts for the wounded men under his care. At the sight of her, the doctor “threw up his hands” and was speechless, Barton recounted, but, recovering himself after a moment, declared, “God has indeed remembered us.
A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
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