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Louisa co-authored with Emma two accounts of their nursing experiences Our Adventures During the War of 1870, and Service in Servia Under the Red Cross. They also wrote a brief history of wartime nursing titled Under the Red Cross, the last two chapters of which document a multitude of failings in Colonel Loyd-Lindsay’s chairmanship of the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War.
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