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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(176)

Author:Kate Moore

29“very filthy women”: Ibid., 47, in PHL, page 401 in PDF.

30“indecently torn”: Ibid.

31“unfragrant water”: Ibid., 47–48, in PHL, pages 401–2 in PDF.

32“did not see”: Ibid., 71, in PHL, page 425 in PDF.

33“Sometimes it appeared”: Ibid., 52–53, in PHL, pages 406–7 in PDF.

34“Dr. McFarland knows”: Lizzie Bonner, quoted in ibid., 53, in PHL, page 407 in PDF.

35“Repentance or exposure”: EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 137.

36“All intercourse between”: “Proclamation,” quoted by SO, MO, 75, in PHL, page 429 in PDF.

37“universal sensation”: Attendant, quoted by EP, PHL, 335.

38“silent hisses”: SO, MO, 75, in PHL, page 429 in PDF.

39“bitter tears”: Ibid.

40“We all felt”: Ibid., 74, in PHL, page 428 in PDF.

41“reign of terror”: Ibid., 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.

42“We were seldom”: Ibid., 75, in PHL, page 429 in PDF.

43“and all who”: Ibid., 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.

44“Don’t kill me”: Ibid.

45“its most valuable”: Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, Special Report of the Trustees, 59.

46“even an unworthy”: Testimony of Patterson, in Special Report of the Trustees, 73.

47“I feel that”: EP, GD, 4:279.

48“no use, and”: Ibid.

49“mild and gentle”: SO, MO, 77, in PHL, page 431 in PDF.

50“unmistakeable portents”: Ibid., 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.

CHAPTER 30

1“good talking times”: EP, PHL, 119.

2“reign of terror”: SO, MO, 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.

3“the capacity”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 332.

4“full to overflowing”: AM, in ibid., 372.

5“extreme limit”: Ibid., 351.

6“been in so”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 331.

7“great professional skill”: Ibid., 332.

8“indefinitely postponed”: Trustees’ Records, December 3, 1862, quoted in Special Report of the Trustees, 31.

9“I never felt”: EP, TE, 83.

10“shut their ears”: Ibid., 82.

11“There is no”: Ibid.

12“sickened”: Ibid., 81.

13“If grief can”: Ibid., 83.

14“broken and”: Ibid.

15“It is proper”: Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, Special Report of the Trustees, 31.

16“In the…retaining”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 337.

17“very much grieved”: EP, TE, 83.

18Conversation between EP and AM: Recounted by EP, ibid., 81–82.

19“It shall be”: EP, GD, 2:71–72.

20“Perhaps I am”: EP, TE, 83.

21“dead cart”: Shedd, “Testimony of Mrs. Tirzah F. Shedd,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 136, in PHL, page 490 in PDF.

22“hasty spade”: SO, MO, 40, in PHL, page 394 in PDF.

23“a beast”: EP, MP2, 271.

24“in the dead”: Ibid., 270.

25“the saddest month”: SO, MO, 78, in PHL, page 432 in PDF.

26“sense of utter”: Ibid.

27“daughters of affliction”: Ibid.

28“dim, shadowy”: Ibid.

29“undermining of every”: Ibid.

30“grass before the”: Francis Augustin O’Reilly, The Fredericksburg Campaign (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), 318.

31“Doubt—suspense—uncertainty”: EP, TE, 84.

32“The faces of all”: SO, MO, 78, in PHL, page 432 in PDF.

33“Darkness, cold and”: Ibid.

34“the bell heavily”: Ibid.

PART FOUR: DEAL WITH THE DEVIL?

EPIGRAPHS

1“We must have”: Marie Curie, as quoted in Madame Curie: A Biography (Hachette Books, 1937) by Eve Curie, 158.

2“She stood in”: Elizabeth Edwards, as quoted in Sarah Netter, “Elizabeth Edwards: In Her Own Words,” ABC News, December 7, 2010, https://abcnews.go.com/US/elizabeth-edwards-words/story?id=12337723.

CHAPTER 31

1“On this book”: EP, MK, 83.

2“single anchor”: Ibid.

3“sinking ship”: Ibid.

4“He has given”: EP, GD, 2:404.

5“argued and discussed”: EP, MK, 83.

6“Vain my logic”: Ibid.