"There They Lie, Strewing the Fields and Woods and Valleys and Battle-Fields"
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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Nurses were on the front lines of treating soldiers from disease and combat wounds—and witness to those who survived and the many who did not. One of America's best-remembered nurses, Walt Whitman, left behind his thoughts about the patients he encountered, and the number of unknown burials scattered across the Southern states.
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