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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

on errands of love. They would see
that his (sheets or shirt) 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