The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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MY FIRST GREAT AFFLICTION-MY SISTER RACHEL'S DEATH.
My mother, who knelt beside me, enclosed me with her arms, and held me tightly My father made no comments, but remained on
his knees sobbing, until my unusual prayer was ended.