From the New Orleans (La.) Times-Picayune, 4/22/1879, p. 4, c. 4

“A Southern Woman’s Story,” by Phoebe Yates Pemeber, of South Carolina, has just made its appearance from the publishing house of G. W. Carleton & Co., of New York, and so deeply interesting and charmingly written is the work that one is reluctant to lay it down until every page has been read. The fair authoress was the chief matron in one of the largest hospitals in Richmond during the war, and her experiences therein, with many incidents of the war never before given, are narrated with a simplicity and grace so common among Southern women. “These women,” she says, “were the first to rebel and the last to succumb,” and the clever writer verified this by being the last to leave the scene of her four years of devoted labor. We speak for this little volume a place around every Southern fireside, where it will be forwarded by Messrs. Carleton & Co. on receipt of 75 cents.

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