The teachers were all convalescent soldiers from the hospitals, moving noiselessly about among the benches in their hospital slippers and cheap calico wrappers—as they themselves had often seen moving about among their hospital cots the angels of mercy from the North.
Reid describes the teachers as convalescent soldiers, drawing a parallel to angels of mercy.
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