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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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ILLUSTRATED WITH SIXTEEN STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
ZEIGLER, McCURDY & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.; CHICAGO, ILL.; CINCINNATI, OHIO; ST. LOUIS,
MO.
R. H. CURRAN,
48 WINTER STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
1867.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
L. P. BROCKETT,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Eastern District of New York.
K ING & BAIRD, PRINTERS,
607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.
WESTCOTT & THOMSON,
Stereotypers.
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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.
[21]
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
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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
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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.
Previous pursuits — In the hospitals in Tennessee in
the summer and autumn 79-383
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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
LARA DAVIS.
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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
ENERAL AID SOCIETY FOR THE ARMY, BUFFALO.
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Organization of the Society — Its first President,
Mrs. Follett — Its second PresidenMrs. Horatio
Seymour — Her efficient Aids, Mis