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Half a Century

by Jane Grey Swisshelm

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — I Find Life
  4. 4Chapter II — Progress in Calvinism — Hunt Ghosts — See la Fayette —…
  5. 5Chapter III — Father’s Death — Age, 6-12
  6. 6Chapter IV — Go to Boarding-School — Age, 12
  7. 7Chapter V — Lose My Brother — Age, 12-15
  8. 8Chapter VI — Join Church and Make New Endeavors to Keep Sabbath — A…
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Deliverer of the Dark Night — Age, 19-21
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Fitting Myself Into My Sphere — Age, 22, 23
  11. 11Chapter IX — Habitations of Horrid Cruelty — Age, 23, 24
  12. 12Chapter X — Kentucky Contempt for Labor — Age, 23, 24
  13. 13Chapter XI — Rebellion — Age, 24
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Valley of the Shadow of Death — Age, 24, 25
  15. 15Chapter XIII — “Labor — Service or Act.” — Age, 25
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Swissvale — Age, 26, 27
  17. 17Chapter XV — Willows by the Water-Courses — Age, 27
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Waters Grow Deep — Age, 29
  19. 19Chapter XVII — My Name Appears in Print — Age, 29
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Mexican War — Age, 30-32
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Training School
  22. 22Chapter XX — Rights of Married Women
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Pittsburg Saturday Visiter
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Reception of the Visiter
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — My Crooked Telescope
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Mint, Cummin and Annis
  27. 27Chapter XXV — Free Soil Party
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Visit Washington — Age, 35
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Daniel Webster
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Fugitive Slave Law
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Bloomers and Woman’s Rights Conventions
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Many Matters
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — The Mother Church
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Politics and Printers
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Sumner, Burlingame and Cassius M. Clay
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — Finance and Desertion
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — My Hermitage
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — The Minnesota Dictator
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Another Visiter
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — Border Ruffianism
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Speak in Public
  42. 42Chapter XL — A Famous Victory
  43. 43Chapter XLI — State and National Politics
  44. 44Chapter XLII — Religious Controversies
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — Frontier Life
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — Printers
  47. 47Chapter XLV — The Rebellion
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — Platforms
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — Out Into the World and Home Again
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — The Aristocracy of the West
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — The Indian Massacre of ’62
  52. 52Chapter L — A Missive and a Mission
  53. 53Chapter LI — No Use for Me Among the Wounded
  54. 54Chapter LII — Find Work
  55. 55Chapter LIII — Hospital Gangrene
  56. 56Chapter LIV — Get Permission to Work
  57. 57Chapter LV — Find a Name
  58. 58Chapter LVI — Drop My Alias
  59. 59Chapter LVII — Hospital Dress
  60. 60Chapter LVIII — Special Work
  61. 61Chapter LIX — Heroic and Anti-Heroic Treatment
  62. 62Chapter LX — Cost of Order
  63. 63Chapter LXI — Learn to Control Piemia
  64. 64Chapter LXII — First Case of Growing a New Bone
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — A Heroic Mother
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — Two Kinds of Appreciation
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Life and Death
  68. 68Chapter LXVI — Meet Miss DIX and Go to Fredericksburg
  69. 69Chapter LXVII — The Old Theater
  70. 70Chapter LXVIII — Am Placed in Authority
  71. 71Chapter LXIX — Visiters
  72. 72Chapter LXX — Wounded Officers
  73. 73Chapter LXXI — “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”
  74. 74Chapter LXXII — More Victims and a Change of Base
  75. 75Chapter LXXIII — Prayers Enough and to Spare
  76. 76Chapter LXXIV — Get Out of the Old Theater
  77. 77Chapter LXXV — Take Boat and See a Social Party
  78. 78Chapter LXXVI — Take Final Leave of Fredericksburg
  79. 79Chapter LXXVII — Try to Get Up a Society and Get Sick
  80. 80Chapter LXXVIII — An Efficient Nurse
  81. 81Chapter LXXIX — Two Fredericksburg Patients
  82. 82Chapter LXXX — Am Enlightened
  83. 83Conclusion

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