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THE ANGEL OF MERCY.
The sad intelligence of Jerome's death was brought to Clotelle while she was giving her personal attention to the sick and wounded that filled the hospitals of New Orleans.

For a time she withdrew from the gaze of mankind, and gave herself up to grief.

Few unions had been productive of more harmonious feelings than hers.

And this blow, so unexpected and at a time when she was experiencing such a degree of excitement caused by the rebellion, made her, indeed, feel the affliction severely.
But the newspaper accounts of the intense suffering of the Union prisoners in the rebel States aroused her, and caused her to leave her retirement.