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Show WRITES ABOUT DIXIE'S FAMOUS WAR NURSE By International News Service WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. Mrs. Ella iewsomo Trader, heroine of the confederacy confed-eracy whose efforts in the civil war earned for her the title of "Dixie's Fl&r-!!m! Fl&r-!!m! lelttlnsnlc." is shortly to have published a book written about her work by a union soldier whom sho nursed back to hcaltn after be had been wounded In battle. At the outbreak of the war, Mr. Trader, then IWrs. Ella NcwEome, save her rortune of 575.000 to the confederacy confed-eracy :jiid enlisted her Jlvo servants In the cause- bhc then went in tho Held ber-snli, ber-snli, nurslm; confederates and their wounded union prisoners. The war M't her penniless and she has since worked In the pension office hero. Her war experience left her blind In one eye and almost entirely deaf The union soldier, whose book ehe win publish pub-lish as soon as she saves mon.jy cnouli to defray tho expenses, spent several years collecting the dat;i of her good work among the soldiers. |