Death of Sergeant Dyer While Spiking His Gun 1887 Engraving My Story of War
An engraving from My Story of the War by Mary Livermore. In very good condition, measures about 8 1/2" x 5 1/4".
Engraved by J J Cade and published by A D Worthington & Co.
DESIGNED BY F. O. C. DARLEY
DEATH OF SERGEANT DYER WHILE SPIKING HIS GUN.
"Our boys tried to save their guns, but, finding that impossible, they endeavored to spike them. Sergeant Dyer, whom I have before mentioned as a rare nurse in sickness, was shot through the lungs, and mortally wounded, while in the act of spiking his gun. Of one hundred and ten horses, they took off the field but forty-five."
Mary Livermore narrated the story of this scene in her book My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience. Livermore was a paid employee for the U.S. Sanitary Commission Chicago branch. The U.S. Sanitary Commission was a U.S. government agency formed in 1861 to coordinate women's effort in war relief through hospital work and fundraising. As an inspector for the Sanitary Commission, Livermore visited hospitals throughout Illinois and the nation. She claimed Mary Safford to be one of most compassionate and beloved nurses in Cairo, and Union soldiers often called her the Cairo angel.
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