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TO WHAT LENGTHS AFFECTIONS WOULD CARRY WOMEN IN THE WAR.
War brought heavy burdens of anxiety and sorrow to the women on both sides of the lines during the terrible struggle of 1861-1865. The anxious waiting for news from the battle-field, the heart-breaking scrutiny of the list of wounded and killed, cannot, with their sorrows, be measured by words and phrases.