Angel Agnes: The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport
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Angel Agnes - Charles Wesley Alexander
Charles Wesley Alexander
Angel Agnes
The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066227104
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ANGEL AGNES
THE HEROINE OF THE YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE
IN SHREVEPORT.
THE STRANGELY ROMANTIC HISTORY AND SAD DEATH
MISS AGNES ARNOLD,
BY WESLEY BRADSHAW.
Geo. Woods & Co's Parlor Organs.
ANGEL AGNES.
AGNES VOLUNTEERS.
IN THE MIDST OF DEATH.
A STRANGE INCIDENT.
AN UNEXPECTED PATIENT.
AGNES SAVES A CHILD, BUT DIES HERSELF.
AGNES' LAST LETTER TO HER MOTHER.
E-text prepared by Mark Meiss
from page images and corrected digital text generously provided by
the Wright American Fiction Project
of the Library Electronic Text Service of Indiana University
ANGEL AGNES:
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OR,
THE HEROINE OF THE YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE
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IN SHREVEPORT.
THE STRANGELY ROMANTIC HISTORY AND SAD DEATH
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OF
MISS AGNES ARNOLD,
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THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF THE LATE SAMUEL ARNOLD, OF THIS CITY.
WEALTHY, LOVELY, AND ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED, YET
THIS DEVOTED GIRL VOLUNTEERED TO GO AND
NURSE YELLOW FEVER PATIENTS AT
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA.
AFTER THREE WEEKS OF INCESSANT LABOR SHE MET WITH A
PAINFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT.
SHE DIED IN THE HOPE OF A BLESSED IMMORTALITY.
HER INTENDED HUSBAND, WHO HAD FOLLOWED HER TO
SHREVEPORT, HAD ALREADY DIED, AND THE TWO
WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE.
TERRIBLE SCENES DURING THE PLAGUE.
BY WESLEY BRADSHAW.
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ISSUED BY
OLD FRANKLIN PUBLISHING HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by C.W. Alexander, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
Geo. Woods & Co's Parlor Organs.
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Illustration of parlor organ.THEIR COMBINATION SOLO STOPS
are capable of the most beautiful musical effects.
Few are aware of the perfection the Parlor Organ has reached, the variety of musical effects of which it is capable, and how desirable an addition it is to the parlor. These instruments have created much interest and enthusiasm by reason of their quality of tone, elegance of finish and musical effects.
The Profession and Public generally are earnestly invited to examine these beautiful instruments at our own or agents' warerooms, and compare them with other instruments of their class.
Correspondence with the Trade and Profession solicited.
Agents wanted in every town. Circulars containing music free.
GEO. WOODS & CO., Cambridgeport, Mass.
IN REPLYING CUT OFF THIS ADDRESS AND ENCLOSE IN YOUR LETTER.
ANGEL AGNES.
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May God protect you, reader of this book, from all manner of sickness; but above all, from that thrice dreaded pestilence, yellow fever. Of all the scourge ever sent upon poor sinful man, none equals in horror and loathsomeness yellow fever. Strong fathers and husbands, sons and brothers, who would face the grape-shot battery in battle, have fled dismayed from the approach of yellow fever. They have even deserted those most dear to them. Courageous, enduring women, too, who feared hardly any other form of sickness, have been terrified into cowardice and flight when yellow fever announced its awful presence.
Such was the state of affairs when, a short time ago, the startling announcement was made that yellow fever had broken out in Shreveport, Louisiana,