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Title: Woman's Work in the Civil War

A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

Author: Linus Pierpont Brockett

Mary C. Vaughan

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WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CIVIL WAR

"'SHOOT, IF YOU MUST, THIS OLD GRAY HEAD.BUT SPARE YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG,' SHE SAID."

Barbara Frietchie.

H. L. Stephens, Del. Samuel Sartain, Sc.

WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CIVIL WAR :

A RECORD

OF

HEROISM, PATRIOTISM AND PATIENCE

BY

L. P. BROCKETT, M.D.,

AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR ," "PHILANTHROPIC R ESULTS OF THE WAR ," "OUR GREAT CAPTAINS,"

"LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN," "THE CAMP, THE BATTLE FIELD, AND THE HOSPITAL," &C., &C.

AND

MRS. MARY C. VAUGHAN.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION,

BY HENRY W. BELLOWS, D.D.,

President U. S. Sanitary Commission.


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TO

THE LOYAL WOMEN OF AMERICA,

WHOSE PATRIOTIC CONTRIBUTIONS, TOILS AND SACRIFICES,

ENABLED THEIR SISTERS, WHOSE HISTORY IS HERE RECORDED, TO

MINISTER RELIEF AND CONSOLATION TO OUR WOUNDED AND

SUFFERING HEROES;

AND WHO BY THEIR DEVOTION, THEIR LABORS, AND THEIR PATIENT

ENDURANCE OF PRIVATION AND DISTRESS OF BODY AND SPIRIT,

WHEN CALLED TO GIVE UP THEIR BELOVED ONES FOR THE

NATION'S DEFENSE,

HAVE WON FOR THEMSELVES ETERNAL HONOR, AND THE UNDYING

REMEMBRANCE OF THE PATRIOTS OF ALL TIME,

WE DEDICATE THIS

VOLUME.

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PREFACE.

The preparation of this work, or rather the collection of material for it, was commencedin the autumn of 1863. While engaged in the compilation of a little book on "ThePhilanthropic Results of the War" for circulation abroad, in the summer of that year, thewriter became so deeply impressed with the extraordinary sacrifices and devotion ofloyal women, in the national cause, that he determined to make a record of them for thehonor of his country. A voluminous correspondence then commenced and continued tothe present time, soon demonstrated how general were the acts of patriotic devotion, and

an extensive tour, undertaken the following summer, to obtain by personal observationand intercourse with these heroic women, a more clear and comprehensive idea of whatthey had done and were doing, only served to increase his admiration for their zeal, patience, and self-denying effort.

Meantime the war still continued, and the collisions between Grant and Lee, in the East,and Sherman and Johnston, in the South, the fierce campaign between Thomas and Hood


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in Tennessee, Sheridan's annihilating defeats of Early in the valley of the Shenandoah,and Wilson's magnificent expedition in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, as well asthe mixed naval and military victories at Mobile and Wilmington, were fruitful inwounds, sickness, and death. Never had the gentle and patient ministrations of woman been so needful as in the last year of the war; and never had they been so abundantly

bestowed, and with such zeal and self-forgetfulness.

From Andersonville, and Millen, from Charleston, and Florence, from Salisbury, andWilmington, from Belle Isle, and Libby Prison, came also, in these later months of thewar, thousands of our bravest and noblest heroes, captured by the rebels, the feebleremnant of the tens of thousands imprisoned there, a majority of whom had perished ofcold, nakedness, starvation, and disease, in those charnel houses, victims of the fiendishmalignity of the rebel leaders. These poor fellows, starved to the last degree ofemaciation, crippled and dying from frost and gangrene, many of [22] them idiotic fromtheir sufferings, or with the fierce fever of typhus, more deadly than sword or minié bullet, raging in their veins, were brought to Annapolis and to Wilmington, andunmindful of the deadly infection, gentle and tender women ministered to them asfaithfully and lovingly, as if they were their own brothers. Ever and anon, in these worksof mercy, one of these fair ministrants died a martyr to her faithfulness, asking, oftenonly, to be buried beside her "boys," but the work never ceased while there was a soldierto be nursed. Nor were these the only fields in which noble service was rendered tohumanity by the women of our time. In the larger associations of our cities, day afterday, and year after year, women served in summer's heat and winter's cold, at theirdesks, corresponding with auxiliary aid societies, taking account of goods received forsanitary supplies, re-packing and shipping them to the points where they were needed,inditing and sending out circulars appealing for aid, in work more prosaic but equallyneedful and patriotic with that performed in the hospitals; and throughout every villageand hamlet in the country, women were toiling, contriving, submitting to privation, performing unusual and severe labors, all for the soldiers. In the general hospitals of thecities and larger towns, the labors of the special diet kitchen, and of the hospital nursewere performed steadily, faithfully, and uncomplainingly, though there also, ever andanon, some fair toiler laid down her life in the service. There were many too in still otherfields of labor, who showed their love for their country; the faithful women who, in thePhiladelphia Refreshment Saloons, fed the hungry soldier on his way to or from the

battle-field, till in the aggregate, they had dispensed nearly eight hundred thousandmeals, and had cared for thousands of sick and wounded; the matrons of the Soldiers'Homes, Lodges, and Rests; the heroic souls who devoted themselves to the noble workof raising a nation of bondmen to intelligence and freedom; those who attempted the stillmore hopeless task of rousing the blunted intellect and cultivating the moral nature of thedegraded and abject poor whites; and those who in circumstances of the greatest peril,manifested their fearless and undying attachment to their country and its flag; all these


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A. N. Read, of Norwalk, Ohio,[24] late one of the Medical Inspectors of the SanitaryCommission, Dr. Joseph Parrish, of Philadelphia, also a Medical Inspector of theCommission, Mrs. M. M. Husband, of Philadelphia, one of the most faithful workers infield hospitals during the war, Miss Katherine P. Wormeley, of Newport, Rhode Island,the accomplished historian of the Sanitary Commission, Mrs. W. H. Holstein, of

Bridgeport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Miss Maria M. C. Hall, of Washington,District of Columbia, and Miss Louise Titcomb, of Portland, Maine. From many of thesewe have received information indispensable to the completeness and success of ourwork; information too, often afforded at great inconvenience and labor. We commit our book, then, to the loyal women of our country, as an earnest and conscientious effort to portray some phases of a heroism which will make American women famous in all thefuture ages of history; and with the full conviction that thousands more only lacked theopportunity, not the will or endurance, to do, in the same spirit of self-sacrifice, whatthese have done.

L. P. B.

BROOKLYN, N. Y., February, 1867 .

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CONTENTS.

AGE

EDICATION. 9

REFACE. 1

ABLE OF CONTENTS. 5-51

TRODUCTION BY HENRY W. BELLOWS, D. D. 5

TRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

Patriotism in some form, an attribute of woman in all nations and climes — Imodes of manifestation — Pæans for victory — Lamentations for the death ofheroic leader — Personal leadership by women — The assassination of tyrants — Thcare of the sick and wounded of national armies — The hospitals established by th5-94

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PART II. LADIES WHO MINISTERED TO THESICK AND WOUNDED IN CAMP, FIELD, AND

GENERAL HOSPITALS.

LARA HARLOWE BARTON.

Early life — Teaching — The Bordentown school — Obtains a situation in the PateOffice — Her readiness to help others — Her native genius for nursing — Removefrom office in 1857 — Return to Washington in 1861 — Nursing and providing fMassachusetts soldiers at the Capitol in April, 1861 — Hospital and sanitary worin 1861 — Death of her father — Washington hospitals again — Going to the front

Cedar Mountain — The second Bull Run battle — Chantilly — Heroic laborsAntietam — Soft bread — Three barrels of flour and a bag of salt — Thirty lanterfor that night of gloom — The race for Fredericksburg — Miss Barton as a gener purveyor for the sick and wounded — The battle of Fredericksburg — Under fireThe rebel officer's appeal — The "confiscated" carpet — After the battle — In thdepartment of the South — The sands of Morris Island — The horrors of the siegeForts Wagner and Sumter — The reason why she went thither — Return to th North — Preparations for the great campaign — Her labors at Belle PlaiFredericksburg, White House, and City Point — Return to Washington — Appointe"General correspondent for the friends of paroled prisoners" — Her residenceAnnapolis — Obstacles — The Annapolis plan abandoned — She establishesWashington a "Bureau of records of missing men in the armies of the UniteStates" — The plan of operations of this Bureau — Her visit to Andersonville — Thcase of Dorrance Atwater — The Bureau of missing men an institutioindispensable to the Government and to friends of the soldiers — Her sacrifices imaintaining it — The grant from Congress — Personal appearance of Miss Barton. 11-132

ELEN LOUISE GILSON.

Early history — Her first work for the soldiers — Collecting supplies — The clothincontract — Providing for soldiers' wives and daughters — Application to Miss Di

for an appointment as nurse — She is rejected as too young — Associated with HoFrank B. Fay in the Auxiliary Relief Service — Her labors on the HospitTransports — Her manner of working — Her extraordinary personal influence — Hwork at Gettysburg — Influence over the men — Carrying a sick comrade to thhospital — Her system and self-possession — Pleading the cause of the soldier witthe people — Her services in Grant's protracted campaign — The hospitalsFredericksburg — Singing to the soldiers — Her visit to the barge"contrabands" — Her address to the negroes — Singing to them — The hospital f 33-148

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colored soldiers — Miss Gilson re-organizes and re-models it, making it the behospital at City Point — Her labors for the spiritual good of the men in hhospital — Her care for the negro washerwomen and their families — Completionher work — Personal appearance of Miss Gilson.

RS. JOHN HARRIS.[27]

Previous history — Secretary Ladies' Aid Society — Her decision to go to th"front" — Early experiences — On the Hospital Transports — Harrison's LandingHer garments soaked in human gore — Antietam — French's Division HospitalSmoketown General Hospital — Return to the "front" — FredericksburgFalmouth — She almost despairs of the success of our arms — ChancellorsvilleGettysburg — Following the troops — Warrenton — Insolence of the rebelsIllness — Goes to the West — Chattanooga — Serious illness — Return to NashvilleLabors for the refugees — Called home to watch over a dying mother — Th

returned prisoners from Andersonville and Salisbury 49-160

RS. ELIZA C. PORTER.

Mrs. Porter's social position — Her patriotism — Labors in the hospitals at CairoShe takes charge of the Northwestern Sanitary Commission Rooms at ChicagoHer determination to go, with a corps of nurses, to the front — Cairo and PaducahVisit to Pittsburg Landing after the battle — She brings nurses and supplies for thhospitals from Chicago — At Corinth — At Memphis — Work among the freedmenMemphis and elsewhere — Efforts for the establishment of hospitals for the sic

and wounded in the Northwest — Co-operation with Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. HoweThe Harvey Hospital — At Natchez and Vicksburg — Other appeals for Northerhospitals — At Huntsville with Mrs. Bickerdyke — At Chattanooga — Experiences ia field hospital in the woods — Following Sherman's army from Chattanooga tAtlanta — "This seems like having mother about" — Constant labors — Thdistribution of supplies to the soldiers of Sherman's army near Washington — patriotic family. 61-171

RS. MARY A. BICKERDYKE.

Previous history of Mrs. Bickerdyke — Her regard for the private soldiers"Mother Bickerdyke and her boys" — Her work at Savannah after the battleShiloh — What she accomplished at Perryville — The Gayoso HospitalMemphis — Colored nurses and attendants — A model hospital — The delinqueassistant-surgeon — Mrs. Bickerdyke's philippic — She procures his dismissal — Hiinterview with General Sherman — "She ranks me" — The commanding gener alappreciate her — Convalescent soldiers vs. colored nurses — The Medical Director72-186

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order — Mrs. Bickerdyke's triumph — A dairy and hennery for the hospitals — Twhundred cows and a thousand hens — Her first visit to the Milwaukee ChamberCommerce — "Go over to Canada — This country has no place for such creatures"At Vicksburg — In field hospitals — The dresses riddled with sparks — The boxclothing for herself — Trading for butter and eggs for the soldiers — The two lac

trimmed night-dresses — A new style of hospital clothing for wounded soldiers — second visit to Milwaukee — Mrs. Bickerdyke's speech — "Set your standard highyet" — In the Huntsville Hospital — At Chattanooga at the close of the battle — Thonly woman on the ground for four weeks — Cooking under difficulties — Hinterview with General Grant — Complaints of the neglect of the men by somethe surgeons — "Go around to the hospitals and see for yourself" — VisiHuntsville, Pulaski, etc. — With Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta — Makindishes for the sick out of hard tack and the ordinary rations — At Nashville anFranklin — Through the Carolinas with Sherman — Distribution of supplies neWashington — "The Freedmen's Home and Refuge" at Chicago.

ARGARET ELIZABETH BRECKINRIDGE. By Mrs. J. G. Forman.[28]

Sketch of her personal appearance — Her gentle, tender, winning ways — ThAmerican Florence Nightingale — What if I do die? — The Breckinridge familyMargaret's childhood and youth — Her emancipation of her slaves — Working fthe soldiers early in the war — Not one of the Home Guards — Her earnest desire tlabor in the hospitals — Hospital service at Baltimore — At Lexington, KentuckyMorgan's first raid — Her visit to the wounded soldiers — "Every one of you bringregiment with you" — Visiting the St. Louis hospitals — On the hospital boats on thMississippi — Perils of the voyage — Severe and incessant labor — The contraban

at Helena — Touching incidents of the wounded on the hospital boats — "Thservice pays" — In the hospitals at St. Louis — Impaired health — She goes eastwarfor rest and recovery — A year of weakness and weariness — In the hospitalPhiladelphia — A ministering angel — Colonel Porter her brother-in-law killedCold Harbor — She goes to Baltimore to meet the body — Is seized with typhoifever and dies after five weeks illness. 87-199

RS. STEPHEN BARKER.

Family of Mrs. Barker — Her husband Chaplain of First Massachusetts Heav

Artillery — She accompanies him to Washington — Devotes herself to the workvisiting the hospitals — Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital — She removes to FoAlbany and takes charge as Matron of the Regimental Hospital — Pleasaexperiences — Reading to the soldiers — Two years of labor — Return to Washingtoin January, 1864 — She becomes one of the hospital visitors of the SanitarCommission — Ten hospitals a week — Remitting the soldiers' money and valuableto their families — The service of Mr. and Mrs. Barker as lecturers and missionar ieof the Sanitary Commission to the Aid Societies in the smaller cities and villages 00-211

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The distribution of supplies to the disbanding armies — Her report.

MY M. BRADLEY.

Childhood of Miss Bradley — Her experiences as a teacher — Residence iCharleston, South Carolina — Two years of illness — Goes to Costa Rica — Threyears of teaching in Central America — Return to the United States — Becomecorresponding clerk and translator in a large glass manufactory — Beginning of thwar — She determines to go as a nurse — Writes to Dr. Palmer — His quaint replyHer first experience as nurse in a regimental hospital — Skill and tact in managinit — Promoted by General Slocum to the charge of the Brigade Hospital — HospitTransport Service — Over-exertion and need of rest — The organization of thSoldiers' Home at Washington — Visiting hospitals at her leisure — Camp MiseryWretched condition of the men — The rendezvous of distribution — Miss Bradlegoes thither as Sanitary Commission Agent — Her zealous and multifario

labors — Bringing in the discharged men for their papers — Procuring the correctioof their papers, and the reinstatement of the men — "The Soldiers' Journal" — MisBradley's object in its establishment — Its success — Presents to Miss BradleyPersonal appearance. 12-224

RS. ARABELLA GRIFFITH BARLOW.

Birth and education of Mrs. Griffith — Her marriage at the beginning of the war She accompanies her husband to the camp, and wherever it is possible ministers tthe wounded or sick soldiers — Joins the Sanitary Commission in July, 1862, an

labors among the sick and wounded at Harrison's Landing till late in AugustColonel Barlow severely wounded at Antietam — Mrs. Barlow nurses him witgreat tenderness, and at the same time ministers to the wounded of SedgwicHospital — At[29] Chancellorsville and Gettysburg — General Barlow agaiwounded, and in the enemy's lines — She removes him and succors the wounded ithe intervals of her care of him — In May, 1864, she was actively engaged at BellPlain, Fredericksburg, Port Royal, White House, and City Point — Her incessalabor brought on fever and caused her death July 27, 1864 — Tribute of the SanitarCommission Bulletin, Dr. Lieber and others, to her memory. 25-233

RS. NELLIE MARIA TAYLOR.

Parentage and early history — Removal to New Orleans — Her son urged to enlist ithe rebel army — He is sent North — The rebels persecute Mrs. Taylor — Hdismissal from her position as principal of one of the city schools — Her housmobbed — "I am for the Union, tear my house down if you choose!" — Her houssearched seven times for the flag — The Judge's son — "A piece of Souther34-240

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Hospital — Tour among the Aid Societies — The campaign of 1864-5 — Constalabors in the field hospitals at Fredericksburg, City Point, and elsewhere, ti November — Another tour among the Aid Societies — Labors among the returne prisoners at Annapolis.

RS. CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY. By Rev. N. M. Mann.

The death of her husband, Governor Louis P. Harvey — Her intense grief — Shresolves to devote herself to the care of the sick and wounded soldiers — She visiSt. Louis as Agent for the State of Wisconsin — Work in the St. Louis hospitals ithe autumn of 1862 — Heroic labors at Cape Girardeau — Visiting hospitals alonthe Mississippi — The soldiers' ideas of her influence and power — Young's Point i1863 — Illness of Mrs. Harvey — She determines to secure the establishment ofGeneral Hospital at Madison, Wisconsin, where from the fine climate the chanceof recovery of the sick and wounded will be increased — Her resolution an

energy — The Harvey Hospital — The removal of the patients at Fort Pickering tit — Repeated journeys down the Mississippi — Presented with an elegant watch bthe Second Wisconsin Cavalry — Her influence over the soldiers — The SoldierOrphan Asylum at Madison. 60-268

RS. SARAH R. JOHNSTON.

Loyal Southern women — Mrs. Johnston's birth and social position — Her interest ithe Union prisoners — "A Yankee sympathizer" — The young soldier — Her tendcare of him, living and dead — Work for the prisoners — Her persecution by th

rebels — "Why don't you pin me to the earth as you threatened" — "Sergeant, yocan't make anything on that woman" — Copying the inscriptions on Union graveand statistics of Union prisoners — Her visit to the North. 69-272

MILY E. PARSONS. By Rev. J. G. Forman.

Her birth and education — Her preparation for service in the hospitals — Receiveinstruction in the care of the sick, dressing wounds, preparation of diet, etc.Service at Fort Schuyler Hospital — Mrs. General Fremont secures her services fSt. Louis — Condition of St. Louis and the other river cities at this time — Fir

assigned to the Lawson Hospital — Next to Hospital steamer "City of Alton" — Thvoyage from Vicksburg to Memphis — Return to St. Louis — Illness — AppointeSuperintendent of Nurses to the large Benton Barracks Hospital — Her duties — Thadmirable management of the hospital — Visit to the East — Return to her work Illness and return to the East — Collects and forwards supplies to Western SanitarCommission and Northwestern Sanitary Commission — The Chicago Fair — ThCharity Hospital at Cambridge established by her — Her cheerfulness and skill i73-278

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her hospital work.

RS. ALMIRA FALES.

The first woman to work for the soldiers — She commenced in December, 1860Her continuous service — Amount of stores distributed by her — Variety anseverity of her work — Hospital Transport Service — Harrison's Landing — Her worin Pope's campaign — Death of her son — Her sorrowful toil at Fredericksburg anFalmouth — Her peculiarities and humor. 79-283

ORNELIA HANCOCK.[31]

Early labors for the soldiers — Mr. Vassar's testimony — Gettysburg — Thcampaign of 1864 — Fredericksburg and City Point. 84-286

RS. MARY MORRIS HUSBAND.

Her ancestry — Patriotic instincts of the family — Service in Philadelphihospitals — Harrison's Landing — Nursing a sick son — Ministers to others thereDr. Markland's testimony — At Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore — AntietamSmoketown Hospital — Associated with Miss M. M. C. Hall — Her admirablservices as nurse there — Her personal appearance — The wonderful apron with i pockets — The battle-flag — Her heroism in contagious disease — Attachment of thsoldiers for her — Her energy and activity — Her adventures after the battleChancellorsville — The Field Hospital near United States Ford — The forgetfsurgeon — Matron of Third Division, Third Corps Hospital, Gettysburg — CamLetterman — Illness of Mrs. Husband — Stationed at Camp Parole, AnnapolisHospital at Brandy Station — The battles of the Wilderness and SpotsylvaniaOverwhelming labor at Fredericksburg, Port Royal, White House, and City PointSecond Corps Hospital at City Point — Marching through Richmond — "Hurrah fmother Husband" — The visit to her "boys" at Bailey's Cross Roads — Distributioof supplies — Mrs. Husband's labors for the pardon or commutation of the sentencof soldiers condemned by court-martial — Her museum and its treasures. 87-298

HE HOSPITAL TRANSPORT SERVICE.

The organization of this service by the United States Sanitary CommissionDifficulties encountered — Steamers and sailing vessels employed — The corpsladies employed in the service — The headquarters' staff — Ladies plying on thTransports to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhereWork on the Daniel Webster — The Ocean Queen — Difficulties in providing a99-315

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rapidly as was desired for the numerous patients — Duties of the ladies wh belonged to the headquarters' staff — Description of scenes in the work by MisWormeley and Miss G. Woolsey — Taking on patients — "Butter on soft bread""Guess I can stand h'isting better'n him" — "Spare the darning needles" — "Slippeonly fit for pontoon bridges" — Visiting Government Transports — Scrambling egg

in a wash-basin — Subduing the captain of a tug — The battle of Fair Oaks — Bamanagement on Government Transports — Sufferings of the wounded — SanitarCommission relief tent at the wharf — Relief tents at White House depot at SavageStation — The departure from White House — Arrival at Harrison's LandingRunning past the rebel batteries at City Point — "I'll take those mattresses yospoke of" — The wounded of the seven days' battles — "You are so kind, I — am sweak" — Exchanging prisoners under flag of truce.

THER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOSPITAL TRANSPORORPS.

Miss Bradley, Miss Gilson, Mrs. Husband, Miss Charlotte Bradford, Mrs. W. Griffin, Miss H. D. Whetten. 16, 317

ATHERINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY.

Birth and parentage — Commencement of her labors for the soldiers — ThWoman's Union Aid Society of Newport — She takes a contract for army clothinto furnish employment for soldiers' families — Forwarding[32] sanitary goods — Thhundred and fifty bed sacks — Miss Wormeley's connection with the Hospit

Transport Service — Her extraordinary labors — Illness — Is appointed LadSuperintendent of the Lovell General Hospital at Portsmouth Grove, RhodIsland — Her duties — Resigns in October, 1863 — Her volume — "The United StateSanitary Commission" — Other labors for the soldiers. 18-323

HE MISSES WOOLSEY.

Social position of the Woolsey sisters — Mrs. Joseph Howland and her labors othe Hospital Transport — Her tender and skilful nursing of the sick and woundedher husband's regiment — Poem addressed to her by a soldier — Her encourageme

and assistance to the women nurses appointed by Miss Dix — Mrs. RobertHowland — Her labors in the hospitals and at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair — Hearly death from over-exertion in connection with the fair — Her poeticcontributions to the National cause — "In the hospital" — Miss GeorgianaWoolsey — Labors on Hospital Transports — At Portsmouth Grove Hospital — AftChancellorsville — Her work at Gettysburg with her mother — "Three weeks Gettysburg" — The approach to the battle-field — The Sanitary Commission's Lodg24-342

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near the railroad depot — The supply tent — Crutches — Supplying rebels and Uniomen alike — Dressing wounds — "On dress parade" — "Bread with butter onand jelly on the butter" — "Worth a penny a sniff" — The Gettysburg women — ThGettysburg farmers — "Had never seen a rebel" — "A feller might'er got hit" — couldn't leave my bread" — The dying soldiers — "Tell her I love her" — The youn

rebel lieutenant — The colored freedmen — Praying for "Massa Lincoln" — Th purple and blue and yellow handkerchiefs — "Only a blue one" — "The man whscreamed so" — The German mother — The Oregon lieutenant — "Soup" — "Put someat in a little water and stirred it round" — Miss Woolsey's rare capacities for hwork — Estimate a lady friend — Miss Jane Stuart Woolsey — Labors in hospitalsHer charge of the Freedmen at Richmond — Miss Sarah C. Woolsey, at PortsmoutGrove Hospital.

NNA MARIA ROSS.

Her parentage and family — Early devotion to works of charity and benevolencePraying for success in soliciting aid for the unfortunate — The "black small-pox"The conductor's wife — The Cooper Shop Hospital — Her incessant labors antender care of her patients — Her thoughtfulness for them when discharged — Hunselfish devotion to the good of others — Sending a soldier to his friends — "Hmust go or die" — The attachment of the soldiers to her — The home for dischargesoldiers — Her efforts to provide the funds for it — Her success — The walk to SoutStreet — Her sudden attack of paralysis and death — The monument and iinscription. 43-351

RS. G. T. M. DAVIS.

Mrs. Davis a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts — A patriotic family — GenerBartlett — She becomes Secretary of the Park Barracks Ladies' Association — ThBedloe's Island Hospital — The controversy — Discharge of the surgeonWithdrawal from the Association — The hospital at David's Island — Mrs. Davislabors there — The Soldiers' Rest on Howard Street — She becomes the Secretarythe Ladies' Association connected with it — Visits to other hospitals — Gratitudethe men to whom she has ministered — Appeals to the women of Berkshire — Hencomiums on their abundant labors. 52-356

ARY J. SAFFORD.[33]

Miss Safford a native of Vermont, but a resident of Cairo — Her thorough anextensive mental culture — She organizes temporary hospitals among the regimenstationed at Cairo — Visiting the wounded on the field after the battle of BelmontHer extemporized flag of truce — Her remarkable and excessive labors after th

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battle of Shiloh — On the Hospital steamers — Among the hospitals at Cairo — "merry Christmas" for the soldiers stationed at Cairo — Illness induced by her oveexertion — Her tour in Europe — Her labors there, while in feeble health — MrLivermore's sketch of Miss Safford — Her personal appearance and petite figure"An angel at Cairo" — "That little gal that used to come in every day to see us

tell you what she's an angel if there is any". 357-361

RS. LYDIA G. PARRISH.

Previous history — Early consecration to the work of beneficence in the armyVisiting Georgetown Seminary Hospital — Seeks aid from the SanitarCommission — Visits to camps around Washington — Return to Philadelphia tenlist the sympathies of her friends in the work of the Commission — Return tSeminary Hospital — The surly soldier — He melts at last — Visits in othhospitals — Broad and Cherry Street Hospital, Philadelphia — Assists in organizin

a Ladies' Aid Society at Chester, and in forming a corps of volunteer nurses — Falmouth, Virginia, in January, 1863, with Mrs. Harris — On a tour of inspection iVirginia and North Carolina with her husband — The exchange of prisonersTouching scenes — The Continental Fair — Mrs. Parrish's labors in connection witit — The tour of inspection at the Annapolis hospitals — Letters to the SanitarCommission — Condition of the returned prisoners — Their hunger — The St. JohnCollege Hospital — Admirable arrangement — Camp Parole Hospital — The NavAcademy Hospital — The landing of the prisoners — Their frightful sufferings — Shcompiles "The Soldiers' Friend" of which more than a hundred thousand copiewere circulated — Her efforts for the freedmen. 62-372

RS. ANNIE WITTENMEYER.

Early efforts for the soldiers — She urges the organization of Aid Societies, anthese become auxiliary at first to the Keokuk Aid Society, which she was active iestablishing — The Iowa State Sanitary Commission — Mrs. Wittenmeyer becomeits agent — Her active efforts for the soldiers — She disburses one hundred anthirty-six thousand dollars worth of goods and supplies in about two years andhalf — She aids in the establishment of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home — H plan of special diet kitchens — The Christian Commission appoint her their agefor carrying out this plan — Her labors in their establishment in connection wit

large hospitals — Special order of the War Department — The estimate of hservices by the Christian Commission. 73-378

ELCENIA ELLIOTT. By Rev. J. G. Forman.

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1862 — A remarkably skilful nurse — Services at Memphis — The Iowa soldier — Shscales the fence to watch over him and minister to his needs, and at his deatconveys his body to his friends, overcoming all difficulties to do so — In the BentoBarracks Hospital — Volunteers to nurse the patients in the erysipelas wardMatron of the Refugee Home at St. Louis — "The poor white trash" — Matron

Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Farmington, Iowa.

ARY DWIGHT PETTES. By Rev. J. G. Forman.[34]

A native of Boston — Came to St. Louis in 1861, and entered upon hospital work iJanuary, 1862 — Her faithful earnest work — Labors for the spiritual as well a physical welfare of the soldiers, reading the Scriptures to them, singing to theetc. — Attachment of the soldiers to her — She is seized with typhoid fevcontracted in her care for her patients, and dies after five weeks' illness — Dr. Eliotimpressions of her character. 84-388

OUISA MAERTZ. By Rev. J. G. Forman.

Her birth and parentage — Her residence in Germany and Switzerland — Hfondness for study — Her extraordinary sympathy and benevolence — Shcommences visiting the hospitals in her native city, Quincy, Illinois, in the autumof 1861 — She takes some of the wounded home to her father's house and ministeto them there — She goes to St. Louis — Is commissioned as a nurse — Sent tHelena, then full of wounded from the battles in Arkansas — Her severe labohere — Almost the only woman nurse in the hospitals there — "God bless you, de

lady" — The Arkansas Union soldier — The half-blind widow — Miss Maertz Vicksburg — At New Orleans. 90-394

RS. HARRIET R. COLFAX.

Early life — A widow and fatherless — Her first labors in the hospitals in SLouis — Her sympathies never blunted — The sudden death of a soldier — Hreligious labors among the patients — Dr. Paddock's testimony — The wounded froFort Donelson — On the hospital boat — In the battle at Island No. Ten — Bringin back the wounded — Mrs. Colfax's care of them — Trips to Pittsburg Landin

before and after the battle of Shiloh — Heavy and protracted labor for the nursesReturn to St. Louis — At the Fifth Street Hospital — At Jefferson Barracks — Hassociates — Obliged to retire from the service on account of her health in 1864. 95-399

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Miss Davis not a native of this country — Her services at the Broad and CherrStreet Hospital, Philadelphia — One of the Hospital Transport corps — The steam"John Brooks" — Mile Creek Hospital — Mrs. Husband's account of her — Frederick City, Harper's Ferry, and Antietam — Agent of the Sanitary Commissio

at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland — Is seized with typhoid fever here — Whe partially recovered, she resumes her labors, but is again attacked and compelled twithdraw from her work — Her other labors for the soldiers, both sick and wellObtaining furloughs — Sending home the bodies of dead soldiers — Providing hea boards for the soldiers' graves. 00-403

RS. R. H. SPENCER.

Her home in Oswego, New York — Teaching — An anti-war Democrat is convinceof his duty to become a soldier, though too old for the draft — Husband and wife g

together — At the Soldiers' Rest in Washington — Her first work — Matron of thhospital — At Wind-Mill Point — Matron in the First Corps Hospital — Foraging fthe sick and wounded — The march toward Gettysburg — A heavily laden horseGiving up her last blanket — Chivalric instincts of American soldiers — Laboduring the battle of Gettysburg — Under fire — Field Hospital of the EleventCorps — The hospital at White Church — Incessant labors — Saving a soldier's life"Can you go without food for a week?" — The basin of broth — Mrs. Spencappointed agent of the State of New York for the[35] care of the sick and woundesoldiers in the field — At Brandy Station — At Rappahannock Station and BellPlain after the battle of the Wilderness — Virginia mud — Working alone — Heavrain and no shelter — Working on at Belle Plain — "Nothing to wear" — Po

Royal — White House — Feeding the wounded — Arrives at City Point — Thhospitals and the Government kitchen — At the front — Carrying supplies to the mein the rifle pits — Fired at by a sharpshooter — Shelled by the enemy — The greexplosion at City Point — Her narrow escape — Remains at City Point till thospitals are broken up — The gifts received from grateful soldiers. 04-415

RS. HARRIET FOOTE HAWLEY. By Mrs. H. B. Stowe.

Mrs. Hawley accompanies her husband, Colonel Hawley, to South CarolinaTeaching the freedmen — Visiting the hospitals at Beaufort, Fernandina and S

Augustine — After Olustee — At the Armory Square Hospital, Washington — Thsurgical operations performed in the ward — "Reaching the hospital only in time tdie" — At Wilmington — Frightful condition of Union prisoners — Typhus fevraging — The dangers greater than those of the battle-field — Four thousand sick Mrs. Hawley's heroism, and incessant labors — At Richmond — Injured by thupsetting of an ambulance — Labors among the freedmen — Colonel Higginsonspeech. 16-419



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LLEN E. MITCHELL.

Her family — Motives in entering on the work of ministering to the soldiers

Receives instructions at Bellevue Hospital — Receives a nurse's pay and gives it tthe suffering soldiers — At Elmore Hospital, Georgetown — Gratitude of thsoldiers — Trials — St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington — A dying nurse — Her owserious illness — Care and attention of Miss Jessie Home — Death of her mother At Point Lookout — Discomforts and suffering — Ware House HospitaGeorgetown — Transfer of patients and nurse to Union Hotel Hospital — Her dutiearduous but pleasant — Transfer to Knight General Hospital, New Haven — Resigand accepts a situation in the Treasury Department, but longing for her old worreturns to it — At Fredericksburg after battle of the Wilderness — At JudiciarSquare Hospital, Washington — Abundant labor, but equally abundant happinessHer feelings in the review of her work. 20-426

SSIE HOME.

A Scotch maiden, but devotedly attached to the Union — Abandons a pleasant anlucrative pursuit to become a hospital nurse — Her earnestness and zeal — Hincessant labors — Sickness and death — Cared for by Miss Bergen of Brookly New York. 27, 428

ISS VANCE AND MISS BLACKMAR. By Mrs. M. M. Husband.

Miss Vance a missionary teacher before the war — Appointed by Miss Dix toBaltimore hospital — At Washington, at Alexandria, and at Gettysburg — Fredericksburg after the battle of the Wilderness — At City Point in the SeconCorps Hospital — Served through the whole war with but three weeks' furloughMiss Blackmar from Michigan — A skilful and efficient nurse — The almost f athemorrhage — The boy saved by her skill — Carrying a hot brick to bed. 29, 430

. A. DADA AND S. E. HALL.[36]

Missionary teachers before the war — Attending lectures to prepare for nursingAfter the first battle of Bull Run — At Alexandria — The wounded from the battlfield — Incessant work — Ordered to Winchester, Virginia — The Court-HousHospital — At Strasburg — General Banks' retreat — Remaining among the enemy tcare for the wounded — At Armory Square Hospital — The second Bull Run — Rapi but skilful care of the wounded — Painful cases — Harper's Ferry — Twelfth Ar mCorps Hospital — The mother in search of her son — After Chancellorsville — Th31-439

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battle of Gettysburg — Labors in the First and Twelfth Corps Hospitals — Sent tMurfreesboro', Tennessee — Rudeness of the Medical Director — Discomforttheir situation — Discourtesy of the Medical Director and some of the surgeons"We have no ladies here — There are some women here, who are cooks!"Removal to Chattanooga — Are courteously and kindly received — Wounded

Sherman's campaign — "You are the God-blessedest woman I ever saw" — Servicto the close of the war and beyond — Lookout Mountain.

RS. SARAH P. EDSON.

Early life — Literary pursuits — In Columbia College Hospital — At CamCalifornia — Quaker guns — Winchester, Virginia — Prevalence of gangrene — UnioHotel Hospital — On the Peninsula — In hospital of Sumner's Corps — Her sowounded — Transferred to Yorktown — Sufferings of the men — At White Housand the front — Beef soup and coffee for starving wounded men — Is permitted to g

to Harrison's Landing — Abundant labor and care — Chaplain Fuller — At HygeiHospital — At Alexandria — Pope's campaign — Attempts to go to Antietam, but idetained by sickness — Goes to Warrenton, and accompanies the army thence tAcquia Creek — Return to Washington — Forms a society to establish a home antraining school for nurses, and becomes its Secretary — Visits hospitals — StatRelief Societies approve the plan — Sanitary Commission do not approve of it aswhole — Surgeon-General opposes — Visits New York city — The masons becominterested — "Army Nurses' Association" formed in New York — Nurses in grenumbers sent on after the battles of Wilderness, Spottsylvania, etc. — Thexperiment a success — Its eventual failure through the mismanagement in NeYork — Mrs. Edson continues her labors in the army to the close of the war

Enthusiastic reception by the soldiers. 440-447

ARIA M. C. HALL.

A native of Washington city — Desire to serve the sick and wounded — Receivessick soldier into her father's house — Too young to answer the conditions require by Miss Dix — Application to Mrs. Fales — Attempts to dissuade her — "Well girlhere they are, with everything to be done for them" — The Indiana HospitalDifficulties and discouragements — A year of hard and unsatisfactory work Hospital Transport Service — The Daniel Webster — At Harrison's Landing wit

Mrs. Fales — Condition of the poor fellows — Mrs. Harris calls her to AntietamFrench's Division and Smoketown Hospitals — Abundant work but performed witgreat satisfaction — The French soldier's letter — The evening or family prayersSuccessful efforts for the religious improvement of the men — Dr. VanderkieftThe Naval Academy Hospital at Annapolis — In charge of Section five — SucceeMrs. Tyler as Lady Superintendent of the hospital — The humble condition of threturned prisoners from Andersonville and elsewhere — Prevalence of typhfever — Death of her assistants — Four thousand patients — Writes for "Th48-454

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Crutch" — Her joy in the success of her work.

HE HOSPITAL CORPS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY HOSPITAL, ANNAPOLIS.[37]

The cruelties which had been practiced on the Union men in rebel prisons — Dutieof the nurses under Miss Hall — Names and homes of these ladies — Death of MisAdeline Walker — Miss Hall's tribute to her memory — Miss Titcomb's eulogy oher — Death of Miss M. A. B. Young — Sketch of her history — "Let me be buriehere among my boys" — Miss Rose M. Billing — Her faithfulness as a nurse in thIndiana Hospital, (Patent Office,) at Falls Church, and at Annapolis — She like thothers falls a victim to the typhus generated in Southern prisons — Tribute to hmemory. 55-460

THER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ANNAPOLIS HOSPITA

ORPS.

The Maine stay of the Annapolis Hospital — Miss Titcomb — Miss Newhall — MisUsher — Other ladies from Maine — The Maine camp and Hospital AssociationMrs. Eaton — Mrs. Fogg — Mrs. Mayhew — Miss Mary A. Dupee and her laborsMiss Abbie J. Howe — Her labors for the spiritual as well as physical good of thmen — Her great influence over them — Her joy in her work. 61-466

RS. A. H. AND MISS S. H. GIBBONS.

Mrs. Gibbons a daughter of Isaac T. Hopper — Her zeal in the cause of reformWork of herself and daughter in the Patent Office Hospital in 1861 — Visit to FallChurch and its hospital — Sad condition of the patients — "If you do not come antake care of me I shall die" — Return to this hospital — Its condition greatlimproved — Winchester and the Seminary Hospital — Severe labors here — Bankretreat — The nurses held as prisoners — Losses of Mrs. and Miss Gibbons at thitime — At Point Lookout — Exchanged prisoners from Belle Isle — A scarcitygarments — Trowsers a luxury — Fifteen months of hospital service — Conflicts witthe authorities in regard to the freedmen — The July riots in New York in 1863Mrs. Gibbons' house sacked by the rioters — Destruction of everything valuableReturn to Point Lookout — The campaign of 1864-5 — Mrs. and Miss Gibbons

Fredericksburg — An improvised hospital — Mrs. Gibbons takes charge — The giof roses — The roses withered and dyed in the soldiers' blood — Riding with thwounded in box cars — At White House — Labors at Beverly Hospital, NeJersey — Mrs. Gibbons' return home — Her daughter remains till the close of thwar. 67-475



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RS. E. J. RUSSELL.

Government nurses — Their trials and hardships — Mrs. Russell a teacher before th

war — Her patriotism — First connected with the Regimental Hospital of Twentiet New York Militia (National Guards) — Assigned to Columbia College HospitaWashington — After three years' service resigns from impaired health, brecovering enters the service again in Baltimore — Nursing rebels — Her attention tthe religious condition of the men — Four years of service — Returns to teachinafter the war. 77-479

RS. MARY W. LEE.

Mrs. Lee of foreign birth, but American in feeling — Services in the Volunte

Refreshment Saloon — A noble institution — At Harrison's Landing, with MrHarris — Wretched condition of the men — Improvement under the efforts of thladies — The Hospital of the Epiphany at Washington — At Antietam during th battle — The two water tubs — The[38]enterprising sutler — "Take this bread and givit to that woman" — The Sedgwick Hospital — Ordering a guard — Hoffman's FarHospital — Smoketown Hospital — Potomac Creek — Chancellorsville — Under firfrom the batteries on Fredericksburg Heights — Marching with the armyGettysburg — The Second Corps Hospital — Camp Letterman — The RefreshmeSaloon again — Brandy Station — A stove half a yard square — The battles of thWilderness — At Fredericksburg — A diet kitchen without furniture — Over the rivafter a stove — Baking, boiling, stewing, and frying simultaneously — Keeping th

old stove hot — At City Point — In charge of a hospital — The last days of thRefreshment Saloon. 80-488

ORNELIA M. TOMPKINS. By Rev. J. G. Forman.

A scion of an eminent family — At Benton Barracks Hospital — At MemphisReturn to St. Louis — At Jefferson Barracks. 89, 490

RS. ANNA C. McMEENS. By Mrs. E. S. Mendenhall.

A native of Maryland — The wife of a surgeon in the army — At Camp DennisonOne of the first women in Ohio to minister to the soldiers in a military hospitalAt Nashville in hospital — The battle of Perryville — Death of Dr. McMeens — home — Laboring for the Sanitary Commission — In the hospitals at WashingtonMissionary work among the sailors on Lake Erie. 91, 492

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RS. JERUSHA R. SMALL. By Mrs. E. S. Mendenhall.

A native of Iowa — Accompanies her husband to the war — Ministers to th

wounded from Belmont, Donelson, and Shiloh — Her husband woundedShiloh — Under fire in ministering to the wounded — Uses all her spare clothing fthem — As her husband recovers her own health fails — The gallopinconsumption — The female secessionist — Going home to die — Buried with the f lawrapped around her. 93, 494

RS. S. A. MARTHA CANFIELD. By Mrs. E. S. Mendenhall.

Wife of Colonel H. Canfield — Her husband killed at Shiloh — Burying her sorroin her heart — She returns to labor for the wounded in the Sixteenth Army Corps, i

the hospitals at Memphis — Labors among the freedmen — Establishes the ColoreOrphan Asylum at Memphis. 95

RS. THOMAS AND MISS MORRIS.

Faithful laborers in the hospitals at Cincinnati till the close of the war. 96

RS. SHEPARD WELLS. By Rev. J. G. Forman.

Driven from East Tennessee by the rebels — Becomes a member of the LadieUnion Aid Society at St. Louis, and one of its Secretaries — Superintends thspecial diet kitchen at Benton Barracks — An enthusiastic and earnest worker Labor for the refugees. 97, 498

RS. E. C. WITHERELL. By Rev. J. G. Forman.

A lady from Louisville — Her service in the Fourth Street Hospital, St. Louis"Shining Shore" — The soldier boy — On the "Empress" hospital steamer nursin

the wounded — A faithful and untiring nurse — Is attacked with fever, and dies Jul1862 — Resolutions of Western Sanitary Commission. 99-501

HEBE ALLEN. By Rev. J. G. Forman.[39]

A teacher in Iowa — Volunteered as a nurse in Benton Barracks hospital — Verefficient — Died of malarious fever in 1864, at the hospital. 02

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RS. EDWIN GREBLE.

Of Quaker stock — Intensely patriotic — Her eldest son, Lieutenant John Grebl

killed at Great Bethel in 1861 — A second son served through the war — A son-ilaw a prisoner in the rebel prisons — Mrs. Greble a most assiduous worker in thhospitals of Philadelphia, and a constant and liberal giver. 03, 504

RS. ISABELLA FOGG.

A resident of Calais, Maine — Her only son volunteers, and she devotes herself tthe service of ministering to the wounded and sick — Goes to Annapolis with onethe Maine regiments — The spotted fever in the Annapolis Hospital — Mrs. Fogand Mrs. Mayhew volunteer as nurses — The Hospital Transport Service — At th

front after Fair Oaks — Savage's Station — Over land to Harrison's Landing with tharmy — Under fire — On the hospital ship — Home — In the hospitals arounWashington, after Antietam — The Maine Camp Hospital Association — Mrs. J.Eaton — After Chancellorsville — In the field hospitals for nearly a week, workinday and night, and under fire — At Gettysburg the day after the battle — On thRapidan — At Mine Run — At Belle Plain and Fredericksburg after the battle of thWilderness — At City Point — Home again — A wounded son — Severe illnessMrs. Fogg — Recovery — Sent by Christian Commission to Louisville to takcharge of a special diet kitchen — Injured by a fall — An invalid for life — Happy ithe work accomplished. 05-510

RS. E. E. GEORGE.

Services of aged women in the war — Military agency of Indiana — Mrs. Georgeappointment — Her services at Memphis — At Pulaski — At ChattanoogaFollowing Sherman to Atlanta — Matron of Fifteenth Army Corps Hospital — Nashville — Starts for Savannah, but is persuaded by Miss Dix to go tWilmington — Excessive labors there — Dies of typhus. 11-513

RS. CHARLOTTE E. McKAY.

A native of Massachusetts — Enters the service as nurse at Frederick city — Reboccupation of the city — Chancellorsville — The assault on Marye's Heights — Deatof her brother — Gettysburg — Services in Third Division Third Corps Hospital — Warrenton — Mine Run — Brandy Station — Grant's campaign — From Belle Plain tCity Point — The Cavalry Corps Hospital — Testimonials presented to her. 14-516

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RS. FANNY L. RICKETTS.

Of English parentage — Wife of Major-General Ricketts — Resides on the fronti

for three years — Her husband wounded at Bull Run — Her heroism in gointhrough the rebel lines to be with him — Dangers and privations at RichmondMinistrations to Union soldiers — He is selected as a hostage for the privateersme but released at her urgent solicitation — Wounded again at Antietam, and agaitenderly nursed — Wounded at Middletown, Virginia, October, 1864, and for f omonths in great danger — The end of the war. 17-519

RS. JOHN S. PHELPS.[40]

Early history — Residence in the Southwest — Rescues General Lyon's body — H

heroism and benevolence at Pea Ridge and elsewhere. 20, 521

RS. JANE R. MUNSELL.

Maryland women in the war — Barbara Frietchie — Effie Titlow — Mrs. Munselllabors in the hospitals after Antietam and Gettysburg — Her death from oveexertion. 22, 523

PART III. LADIES WHO ORGANIZED AIDSOCIETIES, RECEIVED AND FORWARDEDSUPPLIES TO THE HOSPITALS, DEVOTINGTHEIR WHOLE TIME TO THE WORK, ETC.

OMAN'S CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF. By Mrs. Julia B. Curtis.

Organization and officers of the Association — It becomes a branch of the UniteStates Sanitary Commission — Its Registration Committee and their duties — ThSelection and Preparation of Nurses for the Army — The Finance and ExecutivCommittee — The unwillingness of the Government to admit any deficiency — Tharrival of the first boxes for the Association — The sacrifices made by the women ithe country towns and hamlets — The Committee of Correspondence — Twenty-fivthousand letters — The receiving book, the day-book and the ledger — The alphabrepeated seven hundred and twenty-seven times on the boxes — Mrs. Fellows anMrs. Colby solicitors of donations — The call for nurses on board the Hospit 27-539

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mostly forwarded to the Western Depôt of the United States Sanitary Commissioat Louisville — "The Soldiers' Home" built under the direction of the Ladies whmanaged the affairs of the Society, and supplied and conducted under theSupervision — The Hospital Directory, Employment Agency, War Claim AgencyThe entire time of the Officers of the Society for five and a half years voluntaril

and freely given to its work from eight in the morning till six or later in thevening — The President, Mrs. B. Rouse, and her labors in organizing Aid Societieand attending to the home work — The labors of the Secretary and Treasurer Editorial work — The Society's printing press — Setting up and printing BulletinsThe Sanitary Fair originated and carried on by the Aid Society — The Ohio StatSoldiers' Home aided by them — Sketch of Mrs. Rouse — Sketch of Miss MarClark Brayton, Secretary of the Society — Sketch of Miss Ellen F. Terry, Treasurof the Society — Miss Brayton's "On a Hospital Train," "Riding on a Rail" — Visto the Army — The first sight of a hospital train — The wounded soldiers on board"Trickling a little sympathy on the Wounded" — "The Hospital Train a jollthing" — The dying soldier — Arrangement of the Hospital Train — The arduo

duties of the Surgeon.

EW ENGLAND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY ASSOCIATION.

Its organization and territory — One million five hundred and fifteen thousandollars collected in money and supplies by this Association — Its Sanitary Fair anits results — The chairman of the Executive Committee Miss Abby W. May — Hretiring and modest disposition — Her rare executive powers — Sketch of MisMay — Her early zeal in the Anti-slavery movement — Her remarkable practictalent, and admirable management of affairs — Her eloquent appeals to th

auxiliaries — Her entire self-abnegation — Extract from one of her letters — Extrafrom her Final Report — The Boston Sewing Circle and its officers — The LadieIndustrial Aid Association of Boston — Nearly three hundred and forty-sevethousand garments for the soldiers made by the employés of the Association, moof whom were from soldiers' families — Additional wages beyond the contra prices paid to the workwomen, to the amount of over twenty thousand dollar sThe lessons learned by the ladies engaged in this work. 53-559

HE NORTHWESTERN SANITARY COMMISSION.

The origin of the Commission — Its early labors — Mrs. Porter's connection witit — Her determination to go to the army — The appointment of Mrs. Hoge and MrLivermore as Managers — The extent and variety of their labors — The two SanitarFairs — Estimate of the amount raised by the Commission. 60-561

RS. A. H. HOGE.[42]



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Her birth and early education — Her marriage — Her family — She identifies hersefrom the beginning with the National cause — Her first visit to the hospitalsCairo, Mound City and St. Louis — The Mound City Hospital — The wounde boy — Turned over for the first time — "They had to take the Fort" — Rebel crueltie

at Donelson — The poor French boy — The mother who had lost seven sons in thArmy — "He had turned his face to the wall to die" — Mrs. Hoge at the WomanCouncil at Washington in 1862 — Labors of Mrs. Hoge and Mrs. LivermoreCorrespondence — Circulars — Addresses — Mrs. Hoge's eloquence and pathosThe ample contributions elicited by her appeals — Visit to the Camp of GenerGrant at Young's Point, in the winter of 1862-3 — Return with a cargowounded — Second visit to the vicinity of Vicksburg — Prevalence of scurvy — Thonion and potato circulars — Third visit to Vicksburg in June, 1863 — Incidentsthis visit — The rifle-pits — Singing Hymns under fire — "Did you drop from heaveinto these rifle-pits?" — Mrs. Hoge's talk to the men — "Promise me you'll visit mregiment to-morrow" — The flag of the Board of Trade Regiment — "How about th

blood?" — "Sing, Rally round the Flag Boys" — The death of R — "Take her picturfrom under my pillow" — Mrs. Hoge at Washington again — Her views of the valuof the Press in benevolent operations — In the Sanitary Fairs at Chicago — Haddress at Brooklyn, in March, 1865 — Gifts presented her as a testimony to thvalue of her labors. 62-576

RS. MARY A. LIVERMORE.

Mrs. Livermore's childhood and education — She becomes a teacher — Hmarriage — She is associated with her husband as Editor of The New Covenant

Her scholarship and ability as a writer and speaker — The vigor and eloquenceher appeals — "Women and the War" — The beginnings of the NorthwesterSanitary Commission — The appointment of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Hoge as imanagers — The contributions of Mrs. Livermore to the press, on subjecconnected with her work — "The backward movement of General McClellan" — ThHutchinsons prohibited from singing Whittier's Song in the Army of thPotomac — Mrs. Livermore's visit to Washington — Her description of "CamMisery" — She makes a tour to the Military Posts on the Mississippi — The femalnurses — The scurvy in the Camp — The Northwestern Sanitary Fair — MrLivermore's address to the Women of the Northwest — Her tact in selecting thright persons to carry out her plans at the Fair — Her extensive journeyings — H

visit to Washington in the Spring of 1865 — Her invitation to the President to b present at the opening of the Fair — Her description of Mr. Lincoln — His death anthe funeral solemnities with which his remains were received at Chicago — Thfinal fair — Mrs. Livermore's testimonials of regard and appreciation from frienand, especially from the soldiers. 77-589

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Organization of the Society — Its first President, Mrs. Follett — Its second PresidenMrs. Horatio Seymour — Her efficient Aids, Mis

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