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I completely agree with Clare on this.  This document made me feel really empathetic towards the people fighting in the Civil War.  It's easy to paint the picture of Southerners being barbaric slave owners and Northerners being too concerned with industrialization and profit to care about the lives of humans, but here it is a confederate woman who isn't fighting for slavery or against industrialization, but is fighting to keep dying men alive.  "I can't help feeling pity for them, they are human beings.  They are our enemys too, wounded and in our power.  It will be hard to treat them as I do the other men but I know it is my duty.  The heat is almost over powering. (202)" This makes the war human, and having been in Charlottesville for the summer months before, I can only imagine how awful the hospital smelled and felt especially without air-conditioning. --Sara S.

I completely agree with Clare on this.  This document made me feel really empathetic towards the people fighting in the Civil War.  It's easy to paint the picture of Southerners being barbaric slave owners and Northerners being too concerned with industrialization and profit to care about the lives of humans, but here it is a confederate woman who isn't fighting for slavery or against industrialization, but is fighting to keep dying men alive.  "I can't help feeling pity for them, they are human beings.  They are our enemys too, wounded and in our power.  It will be hard to treat them as I do the other men but I know it is my duty.  The heat is almost over powering. (202)" This makes the war human, and having been in Charlottesville for the summer months before, I can only imagine how awful the hospital smelled and felt especially without air-conditioning. --Sara S.

== Maria Daly, 1862, Northerner in the South (New Orleans) ==

== Maria Daly, 1862, Northerner in the South (New Orleans) ==