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Florence Nightingale worked up to 20 hours a day. At night, when it was quiet, she would walk through the miles of wards, carrying a Turkish lantern. The Times printed a report about this, and Longfellow wrote a poem, earning her the nickname that stuck. \n

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One soldier wrote, \"What a comfort it was to see her pass. She would speak to one, and nod and smile to many more, but she could not do it to all you know. We lay there by hundreds; but we would kiss her shadow as it fell and lay our heads on the pillow again content.\" And another said, \"Before she came there was cussin' and swearin' but after that it was as 'oly as a church.\"\n

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