Vulgar words in Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience (Page 1)
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J. G. Forman._ Previous pursuits--In the hospitals in Tennessee in the summer and autumn of 1862--A remarkably skilful nurse--Services at Memphis--The Iowa soldier--She scales the fence to watch over him and minister to his needs, and at his death conveys his body to his friends, overcoming all difficulties to do so--In the Benton Barracks Hospital--Volunteers to nurse the patients in the erysipelas ward--Matron of the Refugee Home at St. Louis--"The poor white trash"--Matron of Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Farmington, Iowa.
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It was her intention to go on to Chattanooga, but she found it impossible at that time to procure transportation, and she and her friends at once commenced work among the refugees, the "poor white trash," who were then crowding into Nashville.
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Many of the refugees were of the class called "the poor white trash" of the South, filthy, ragged, proud, indolent, ill-mannered, given to the smoking and chewing of tobacco, often diseased, inefficient, and either unwilling or unable to conform to the necessary regulations of the Home, or to do their own proper share of the work of the household, and the keeping of their apartments in a state of cleanliness and order.