Autobiography: Sketch of Life and Labors of Miss Catherine S. Lawrence, Who in Early Life Distinguished Herself as a Bitter Opponent of Slavery and Intemperance

Catherine S Lawrence

Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon, 1896

Revised edition, 1896 (first published in 1893).   Bound in contemporary brown leather.  Gilt ruled.  Gilt dentelle.  All edges gilt.  Some rubbing to cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 238 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 20 cm. "Amid this stream of abolitionist tirades are a few references to wartime hospitals at the front and behind the lines." - Nevins II, page 130.  Lawrence was an ardent abolitionist and temperane worker. She labored as a nurse during the civil war and wrote this book to supplement her $12 monthly pension.