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MARY J. SAFFORD.

MRS. LYDIA G. PARRISH.

Previous history--Early consecration to the work of beneficence in the army--Visiting Georgetown Seminary Hospital--Seeks aid from the Sanitary Commission--Visits to camps around Washington--Return to Philadelphia to enlist the sympathies of her friends in the work of the Commission-- Return to Seminary Hospital--The surly soldier--He melts at last--Visits in other hospitals--Broad and Cherry Street Hospital, Philadelphia-- Assists in organizing a Ladies' Aid Society at Chester, and in forming a corps of volunteer nurses--At Falmouth, Virginia, in January, 1863, with Mrs. Harris--On a tour of inspection in Virginia and North Carolina with her husband--The exchange of prisoners--Touching scenes--The Continental Fair--Mrs. Parrish's labors in connection with it--The tour of inspection at the Annapolis hospitals--Letters to the Sanitary Commission--Condition of the returned prisoners--Their hunger--The St. John's College Hospital--Admirable arrangement--Camp Parole Hospital-- The Naval Academy Hospital--The landing of the prisoners--Their frightful sufferings--She compiles "The Soldiers' Friend" of which more than a hundred thousand copies were circulated--Her efforts for the freedmen. 362-372

MRS. ANNIE WITTENMEYER.

Early efforts for the soldiers--She urges the organization of Aid Societies, and these become auxiliary at first to the Keokuk Aid Society, which she was active in establishing--The Iowa State Sanitary Commission--Mrs. Wittenmeyer becomes its agent--Her active efforts for the soldiers--She disburses one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars worth of goods and supplies in about two years and a-half--She aids in the establishment of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home--Her plan of special diet kitchens--The Christian Commission appoint her their agent for carrying out this plan--Her labors in their establishment in connection with large hospitals--Special order of the War Department-- The estimate of her services by the Christian Commission. 373-378

Previous pursuits--In the hospitals in Tennessee in the summer and autumn of 1862--A remarkably skilful nurse--Services at Memphis--The Iowa soldier--She scales the fence to watch over him and minister to his needs, and at his death conveys his body to his friends, overcoming all difficulties to do so--In the Benton Barracks Hospital--Volunteers to nurse the patients in the erysipelas ward--Matron of the Refugee Home at St. Louis--"The poor white trash"--Matron of Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Farmington, Iowa. 379-383

A native of Boston--Came to St. Louis in 1861, and entered upon hospital work in January, 1862--Her faithful earnest work--Labors for the spiritual as well as physical welfare of the soldiers, reading the Scriptures to them, singing to them, etc.--Attachment of the soldiers to her--She is seized with typhoid fever contracted in her care for her patients, and dies after five weeks' illness--Dr. Eliot's impressions of her character. 384-388

Her birth and parentage--Her residence in Germany and Switzerland--Her fondness for study--Her extraordinary sympathy and benevolence--She commences visiting the hospitals in her native city, Quincy, Illinois, in the autumn of 1861--She takes some of the wounded home to her father's house and ministers to them there--She goes to St. Louis--Is commissioned as a nurse--Sent to Helena, then full of wounded from the battles in Arkansas--Her severe labors here--Almost the only woman nurse in the hospitals there--"God bless you, dear lady"--The Arkansas Union soldier--The half-blind widow--Miss Maertz at Vicksburg--At New Orleans. 390-394

Early life--A widow and fatherless--Her first labors in the hospitals in St. Louis--Her sympathies never blunted--The sudden death of a soldier-- Her religious labors among the patients--Dr. Paddock's testimony--The wounded from Fort Donelson--On the hospital boat--In the battle at Island No. Ten--Bringing back the wounded--Mrs. Colfax's care of them-- Trips to Pittsburg Landing, before and after the battle of Shiloh--Heavy and protracted labor for the nurses--Return to St. Louis--At the Fifth Street Hospital--At Jefferson Barracks--Her associates--Obliged to retire from the service on account of her health in 1864. 395-399

CLARA DAVIS.

Miss Davis not a native of this country--Her services at the Broad and Cherry Street Hospital, Philadelphia--One of the Hospital Transport corps--The steamer "John Brooks"--Mile Creek Hospital--Mrs. Husband's account of her--At Frederick City, Harper's Ferry, and Antietam--Agent of the Sanitary Commission at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland--Is seized with typhoid fever here--When partially recovered, she resumes her labors, but is again attacked and compelled to withdraw from her work--Her other labors for the soldiers, both sick and well--Obtaining furloughs--Sending home the bodies of dead soldiers--Providing head-boards for the soldiers' graves. 400-403

MRS. R. H. SPENCER.

Her home in Oswego, New York--Teaching--An anti-war Democrat is convinced of his duty to become a soldier, though too old for the draft--Husband and wife go together--At the Soldiers' Rest in Washington--Her first work--Matron of the hospital--At Wind-Mill Point--Matron in the First Corps Hospital--Foraging for the sick and wounded--The march toward Gettysburg--A heavily laden horse--Giving up her last blanket--Chivalric instincts of American soldiers--Labors during the battle of Gettysburg--Under fire--Field Hospital of the Eleventh Corps--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. Spencer appointed agent of the State of New York for the care of the sick and wounded soldiers in the field--At Brandy Station--At Rappahannock Station and Belle Plain after the battle of the Wilderness--Virginia mud--Working alone--Heavy rain and no shelter--Working on at Belle Plain--"Nothing to wear"--Port Royal--White House--Feeding the wounded--Arrives at City Point--The hospitals and the Government kitchen--At the front--Carrying supplies to the men in the rifle pits--Fired at by a sharpshooter--Shelled by the enemy--The great explosion at City Point--Her narrow escape--Remains at City Point till the hospitals are broken up--The gifts received from grateful soldiers. 404-415

Mrs. Hawley accompanies her husband, Colonel Hawley, to South Carolina--Teaching the freedmen--Visiting the hospitals at Beaufort, Fernandina and St. Augustine--After Olustee--At the Armory Square Hospital, Washington--The surgical operations performed in the ward--"Reaching the hospital only in time to die"--At Wilmington-- Frightful condition of Union prisoners--Typhus fever raging--The dangers greater than those of the battle-field--Four thousand sick-- Mrs. Hawley's heroism, and incessant labors--At Richmond--Injured by the upsetting of an ambulance--Labors among the freedmen--Colonel Higginson's speech. 416-419

ELLEN 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 to the suffering soldiers--At Elmore Hospital, Georgetown--Gratitude of the soldiers--Trials--St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington--A dying nurse--Her own serious illness--Care and attention of Miss Jessie Home--Death of her mother--At Point Lookout--Discomforts and suffering--Ware House Hospital, Georgetown--Transfer of patients and nurse to Union Hotel Hospital--Her duties arduous but pleasant--Transfer to Knight General Hospital, New Haven--Resigns and accepts a situation in the Treasury Department, but longing for her old work returns to it-- At Fredericksburg after battle of the Wilderness--At Judiciary Square Hospital, Washington--Abundant labor, but equally abundant happiness-- Her feelings in the review of her work. 420-426

JESSIE HOME.

A Scotch maiden, but devotedly attached to the Union--Abandons a pleasant and lucrative pursuit to become a hospital nurse--Her earnestness and zeal--Her incessant labors--Sickness and death--Cared for by Miss Bergen of Brooklyn, New York. 427, 428

Miss Vance a missionary teacher before the war--Appointed by Miss Dix to a Baltimore hospital--At Washington, at Alexandria, and at Gettysburg-- At Fredericksburg after the battle of the Wilderness--At City Point in the Second Corps Hospital--Served through the whole war with but three weeks' furlough--Miss Blackmar from Michigan--A skilful and efficient nurse--The almost fatal hemorrhage--The boy saved by her skill--Carrying a hot brick to bed. 429, 430

H. A. DADA AND S. E. HALL.

MRS. SARAH P. EDSON.

Early life--Literary pursuits--In Columbia College Hospital--At Camp California--Quaker guns--Winchester, Virginia--Prevalence of gangrene-- Union Hotel Hospital--On the Peninsula--In hospital of Sumner's Corps-- Her son wounded--Transferred to Yorktown--Sufferings of the men--At White House and the front--Beef soup and coffee for starving wounded men--Is permitted to go to Harrison's Landing--Abundant labor and care-- Chaplain Fuller--At Hygeia Hospital--At Alexandria--Pope's campaign-- Attempts to go to Antietam, but is detained by sickness--Goes to Warrenton, and accompanies the army thence to Acquia Creek--Return to Washington--Forms a society to establish a home and training school for nurses, and becomes its Secretary--Visits hospitals--State Relief Societies approve the plan--Sanitary Commission do not approve of it as a whole--Surgeon-General opposes--Visits New York city--The masons become interested--"Army Nurses' Association" formed in New York--Nurses in great numbers sent on after the battles of Wilderness, Spottsylvania, etc.--The experiment a success--Its eventual failure through the mismanagement in New York--Mrs. Edson continues her labors in the army to the close of the war--Enthusiastic reception by the soldiers. 440-447

MARIA M. C. HALL.

A native of Washington city--Desire to serve the sick and wounded-- Receives a sick soldier into her father's house--Too young to answer the conditions required by Miss Dix--Application to Mrs. Fales-- Attempts to dissuade her--"Well girls here they are, with everything to be done for them"--The Indiana Hospital--Difficulties and discouragements--A year of hard and unsatisfactory work--Hospital Transport Service--The Daniel Webster--At Harrison's Landing with Mrs. Fales--Condition of the poor fellows--Mrs. Harris calls her to Antietam--French's Division and Smoketown Hospitals--Abundant work but performed with great satisfaction--The French soldier's letter--The evening or family prayers--Successful efforts for the religious improvement of the men--Dr. Vanderkieft--The Naval Academy Hospital at Annapolis--In charge of Section five--Succeeds Mrs. Tyler as Lady Superintendent of the hospital--The humble condition of the returned prisoners from Andersonville and elsewhere--Prevalence of typhus fever-- Death of her assistants--Four thousand patients--Writes for "The Crutch"--Her joy in the success of her work. 448-454

THE HOSPITAL CORPS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY HOSPITAL, ANNAPOLIS.

The cruelties which had been practiced on the Union men in rebel prisons--Duties of the nurses under Miss Hall--Names and homes of these ladies--Death of Miss Adeline Walker--Miss Hall's tribute to her memory--Miss Titcomb's eulogy on her--Death of Miss M. A. B. Young-- Sketch of her history--"Let me be buried here among my boys"--Miss Rose M. Billing--Her faithfulness as a nurse in the Indiana Hospital, at Falls Church, and at Annapolis--She like the others falls a victim to the typhus generated in Southern prisons--Tribute to her memory. 455-460

OTHER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ANNAPOLIS HOSPITAL CORPS.

MRS. A. H. AND MISS S. H. GIBBONS.

Mrs. Gibbons a daughter of Isaac T. Hopper--Her zeal in the cause of reform--Work of herself and daughter in the Patent Office Hospital in 1861--Visit to Falls Church and its hospital--Sad condition of the patients--"If you do not come and take care of me I shall die"--Return to this hospital--Its condition greatly improved--Winchester and the Seminary Hospital--Severe labors here--Banks' retreat--The nurses held as prisoners--Losses of Mrs. and Miss Gibbons at this time--At Point Lookout--Exchanged prisoners from Belle Isle--A scarcity of garments-- Trowsers a luxury--Fifteen months of hospital service--Conflicts with the authorities in regard to the freedmen--The July riots in New York in 1863--Mrs. Gibbons' house sacked by the rioters--Destruction of everything valuable--Return to Point Lookout--The campaign of 1864-5-- Mrs. and Miss Gibbons at Fredericksburg--An improvised hospital--Mrs. Gibbons takes charge--The gift of roses--The roses withered and dyed in the soldiers' blood--Riding with the wounded in box cars--At White House--Labors at Beverly Hospital, New Jersey--Mrs. Gibbons' return home--Her daughter remains till the close of the war. 467-475

MRS. E. J. RUSSELL.

Government nurses--Their trials and hardships--Mrs. Russell a teacher before the war--Her patriotism--First connected with the Regimental Hospital of Twentieth New York Militia --Assigned to Columbia College Hospital, Washington--After three years' service resigns from impaired health, but recovering enters the service again in Baltimore--Nursing rebels--Her attention to the religious condition of the men--Four years of service--Returns to teaching after the war. 477-479

MRS. MARY W. LEE.

Mrs. Lee of foreign birth, but American in feeling--Services in the Volunteer Refreshment Saloon--A noble institution--At Harrison's Landing, with Mrs. Harris--Wretched condition of the men--Improvement under the efforts of the ladies--The Hospital of the Epiphany at Washington--At Antietam during the battle--The two water tubs--The enterprising sutler--"Take this bread and give it to that woman"--The Sedgwick Hospital--Ordering a guard--Hoffman's Farm Hospital--Smoketown Hospital--Potomac Creek--Chancellorsville--Under fire from the batteries on Fredericksburg Heights--Marching with the army--Gettysburg--The Second Corps Hospital--Camp Letterman--The Refreshment Saloon again-- Brandy Station--A stove half a yard square--The battles of the Wilderness--At Fredericksburg--A diet kitchen without furniture--Over the river after a stove--Baking, boiling, stewing, and frying simultaneously--Keeping the old stove hot--At City Point--In charge of a hospital--The last days of the Refreshment Saloon. 480-488

A scion of an eminent family--At Benton Barracks Hospital--At Memphis-- Return to St. Louis--At Jefferson Barracks. 489, 490

A native of Maryland--The wife of a surgeon in the army--At Camp Dennison--One of the first women in Ohio to minister to the soldiers in a military hospital--At Nashville in hospital--The battle of Perryville--Death of Dr. McMeens--At home--Laboring for the Sanitary Commission--In the hospitals at Washington--Missionary work among the sailors on Lake Erie. 491, 492

A native of Iowa--Accompanies her husband to the war--Ministers to the wounded from Belmont, Donelson, and Shiloh--Her husband wounded at Shiloh--Under fire in ministering to the wounded--Uses all her spare clothing for them--As her husband recovers her own health fails--The galloping consumption--The female secessionist--Going home to die-- Buried with the flag wrapped around her. 493, 494

Wife of Colonel H. Canfield--Her husband killed at Shiloh--Burying her sorrows in her heart--She returns to labor for the wounded in the Sixteenth Army Corps, in the hospitals at Memphis--Labors among the freedmen--Establishes the Colored Orphan Asylum at Memphis. 495

MRS. THOMAS AND MISS MORRIS.

Faithful laborers in the hospitals at Cincinnati till the close of the war. 496

Driven from East Tennessee by the rebels--Becomes a member of the Ladies' Union Aid Society at St. Louis, and one of its Secretaries-- Superintends the special diet kitchen at Benton Barracks--An enthusiastic and earnest worker--Labor for the refugees. 497, 498

A lady from Louisville--Her service in the Fourth Street Hospital, St. Louis--"Shining Shore"--The soldier boy--On the "Empress" hospital steamer nursing the wounded--A faithful and untiring nurse--Is attacked with fever, and dies July, 1862--Resolutions of Western Sanitary Commission. 499-501

A teacher in Iowa--Volunteered as a nurse in Benton Barracks hospital-- Very efficient--Died of malarious fever in 1864, at the hospital. 502

MRS. EDWIN GREBLE.

Of Quaker stock--Intensely patriotic--Her eldest son, Lieutenant John Greble, killed at Great Bethel in 1861--A second son served through the war--A son-in-law a prisoner in the rebel prisons--Mrs. Greble a most assiduous worker in the hospitals of Philadelphia, and a constant and liberal giver. 503, 504

MRS. ISABELLA FOGG.

A resident of Calais, Maine--Her only son volunteers, and she devotes herself to the service of ministering to the wounded and sick--Goes to Annapolis with one of the Maine regiments--The spotted fever in the Annapolis Hospital--Mrs. Fogg and Mrs. Mayhew volunteer as nurses--The Hospital Transport Service--At the front after Fair Oaks--Savage's Station--Over land to Harrison's Landing with the army--Under fire--On the hospital ship--Home--In the hospitals around Washington, after Antietam--The Maine Camp Hospital Association--Mrs. J. S. Eaton--After Chancellorsville--In the field hospitals for nearly a week, working day and night, and under fire--At Gettysburg the day after the battle--On the Rapidan--At Mine Run--At Belle Plain and Fredericksburg after the battle of the Wilderness--At City Point--Home again--A wounded son-- Severe illness of Mrs. Fogg--Recovery--Sent by Christian Commission to Louisville to take charge of a special diet kitchen--Injured by a fall-- An invalid for life--Happy in the work accomplished. 505-510

MRS. E. E. GEORGE.

Services of aged women in the war--Military agency of Indiana--Mrs. George's appointment--Her services at Memphis--At Pulaski--At Chattanooga--Following Sherman to Atlanta--Matron of Fifteenth Army Corps Hospital--At Nashville--Starts for Savannah, but is persuaded by Miss Dix to go to Wilmington--Excessive labors there--Dies of typhus. 511-513

MRS. CHARLOTTE E. McKAY.

A native of Massachusetts--Enters the service as nurse at Frederick city--Rebel occupation of the city--Chancellorsville--The assault on Marye's Heights--Death of her brother--Gettysburg--Services in Third Division Third Corps Hospital--At Warrenton--Mine Run--Brandy Station-- Grant's campaign--From Belle Plain to City Point--The Cavalry Corps Hospital--Testimonials presented to her. 514-516

MRS. FANNY L. RICKETTS.

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