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By Louisa May Alcott
…I maintain that the soldier who cries when his mother says “Good bye,” is the boy to fight best, and die bravest, when the time comes, or go back to her better than he went.
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- Hospital Sketches (first edition), 1863 · Chapter I, "Obtaining Supplies", p. 13 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (Brigham Young University scan of Hospital Sketches, Boston: James Redpath, 1863)
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From Chapter I, "Obtaining Supplies", of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863, first edition). The narrator, the nurse Tribulation Periwinkle (a fictional version of Alcott), is describing her departure for the Washington hospitals.