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From The National Museum of Civil War Medicine
A moving Christmas letter from a Civil War soldier to his wife, written from his hospital bed in Arkansas.
"To-day & to-night you are as busy as you can be, I suppose, with your Christmas Tree and other holiday arrangements for the children, but not too busy, I know, to think of me and wish I could be with you to see and help, as I am wishing I could be, even for a day.
"To-morrow we are having a Christmas dinner at our hospital... I have thought I would hang up my stocking tonight, for I feel almost certain I should get something in it - say a dose of pills or a quinine powder!"
- Lt. Thomas Nichols Stevens of the 28th Wisconsin Co. C writing to his wife from Little Rock, Arkansas as he recovered from an illness.
Photo Credit: A hospital ward in Washington, D.C., Library of Congress
A moving Christmas letter from a Civil War soldier to his wife, written from his hospital bed in Arkansas.
"To-day & to-night you are as busy as you can be, I suppose, with your Christmas Tree and other holiday arrangements for the children, but not too busy, I know, to think of me and wish I could be with you to see and help, as I am wishing I could be, even for a day.
"To-morrow we are having a Christmas dinner at our hospital... I have thought I would hang up my stocking tonight, for I feel almost certain I should get something in it - say a dose of pills or a quinine powder!"
- Lt. Thomas Nichols Stevens of the 28th Wisconsin Co. C writing to his wife from Little Rock, Arkansas as he recovered from an illness.
Photo Credit: A hospital ward in Washington, D.C., Library of Congress
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