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sufferings, & to a deadlier warfare, inasmuch as the same regiments have more frequently met? the enemy. In every family I visited in the South I heard tales of suffering & of heroism. I will only repeat one because it shows what a Lady even can do & bear in these luxurious times. A Mrs Read, while assisting her husband at the Seige of Vicksburg, had her right arm so shattered by a shell, that immediate amputation was necessary. It was during the night, but she wd not have anyone called off from other work to do for her what she was still capable of doing for herself; she therefore held with her left hand the lamp which lighted the surgeon to amputate her shattered right arm.