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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447991" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Negro Heroines</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,<br>How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier's part,<br>But I come to tell the story of relief from care and pain<br>Rendered them by Negro women in the Cuban War with Spain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the scourge of yellow fever fell upon the boys in blue.<br>And the nation stood in wonder scarcely knowing what to do,<br>There was found a Negro woman, Mrs. Curtis was her name,<br>Wife, she was, of a physician with the highest social fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the name of Mrs. Curtis fell upon the nation's ear<br>And her worth on such occasions had been shown in language clear,<br>She was summoned by McKinley to the White House—there to plan<br>How to change the dread condition; how to stay the soldier's ban.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By him there she was commissioned, given fullest oversight<br>Of relieving fever-stricken in the famous Cuban fight;<br>With a confidence unfailing, she her preparations made—<br>Uncle Sam his backing promised true success could not be stayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a call she made for helpers, from the nation's busy throng,<br>The response from Negro nurses came three hundred eighty strong,<br>In the Catholics were also, found one hundred twenty nuns,<br>Who would brave the field as nurses for the fever-stricken ones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this noble work of mercy were their duties done so well<br>That a halo of enchantment round them all is made to dwell,<br>When we search the war department no complaint of them is found,<br>Not a word to their discredit and to truth that record's bound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While upon the field of battle helping stem the fever's tide,<br>While upon that angel mission seven Negro nurses died,<br>In this work the nuns had fallen till the same had numbered four;<br>Thus on snowy, angel pinions they the news to heaven bore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When our boys had thrashed the Spaniards, Mrs. Curtis straightway sent<br>A petition into congress praying that a monument<br>Be at Arlington erected out of sacred memory<br>Of the nurses who in Cuba died to make the island free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mrs. Curtis went in person, she in congress did appear,<br>Told the story of her labors, of her precious deeds of cheer,<br>She convincingly impressed it in the nation's congress true,<br>That for those who fell on duty still a monument was due.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An apportionment by congress for the same at once was made,<br>Yea, to make a fit memorial for the nation's honored dead;<br>Twenty-five will name the thousands of the dollars that were spent—<br>In the nation's cemetery stands the nurses' monument.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mrs. Curtis and her nurses have been valiant in the strife,<br>May such heroines be favored with a long and happy life;<br>In the face of such achievements on the nation's battle field,<br>Prejudice is made to tremble, partly too, his lips are sealed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier's part,
But I come to tell the story of relief from care and pain
Rendered them by Negro women in the Cuban War with Spain.

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