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on errands of love. They would see
that his sheets and clothes were chang
-ed, and, with their own hands make
up his bed, smooth his pillow, and
often comb his hair and bateh his
feverish hands & face and revive his
drooping spirits with their cordials,
and talk with him in words of
sweetness of his mother and home.
well can I attest this, since I have
experienced the sympathy. The generos
-ity and love of those ladies -while
suffering upon my straw matrass
in old Virgina from sever and
painful wounds- fair but strang
er hands have smoothed my for
-head and bathed my feverish
brow and spoke of my Texas home.
God bless them is my prayer

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