Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 6

devotion to the service--Mr. and Mrs. Holstein devote themselves mainly to field hospitals--Labors at Fredericksburg, in the Second Corps Hospital--Services after the battle of Chancellorsville--The march toward Pennsylvania in June, 1863--The Field Hospital of the Second Corps after Gettysburg--Incidents--"Wouldn't be buried by the side of that raw recruit"--Mrs. Holstein Matron of the Second Corps Hospital-- Tour among the Aid Societies--The campaign of 1864-5--Constant labors in the field hospitals at Fredericksburg, City Point, and elsewhere, till November--Another tour among the Aid Societies--Labors among the returned prisoners at Annapolis. 251-259
MRS. CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY. By Rev. N. M. Mann.
The death of her husband, Governor Louis P. Harvey--Her intense grief-- She resolves to devote herself to the care of the sick and wounded soldiers--She visits St. Louis as Agent for the State of Wisconsin--Work in the St. Louis hospitals in the autumn of 1862--Heroic labors at Cape Girardeau--Visiting hospitals along the Mississippi--The soldiers' ideas of her influence and power--Young's Point in 1863--Illness of Mrs. Harvey--She determines to secure the establishment of a General Hospital at Madison, Wisconsin, where from the fine climate the chances of recovery of the sick and wounded will be increased--Her resolution and energy--The Harvey Hospital--The removal of the patients at Fort Pickering to it--Repeated journeys down the Mississippi--Presented with an elegant watch by the Second Wisconsin Cavalry--Her influence over the soldiers--The Soldiers' Orphan Asylum at Madison. 260-268
MRS. SARAH R. JOHNSTON.
Loyal Southern women--Mrs. Johnston's birth and social position--Her interest in the Union prisoners--"A Yankee sympathizer"--The young soldier--Her tender care of him, living and dead--Work for the prisoners--Her persecution by the rebels--"Why don't you pin me to the earth as you threatened"--"Sergeant, you can't make anything on that woman"--Copying the inscriptions on Union graves, and statistics of Union prisoners--Her visit to the North. 269-272
EMILY E. PARSONS. By Rev. J. G. Forman.
Her birth and education--Her preparation for service in the hospitals-- Receives instruction in the care of the sick, dressing wounds, preparation of diet, etc.--Service at Fort Schuyler Hospital--Mrs. General Fremont secures her services for St. Louis--Condition of St. Louis and the other river cities at this time--First assigned to the Lawson Hospital--Next to Hospital steamer "City of Alton"--The voyage from Vicksburg to Memphis--Return to St. Louis--Illness--Appointed Superintendent of Nurses to the large Benton Barracks Hospital--Her duties--The admirable management of the hospital--Visit to the East-- Return to her work--Illness and return to the East--Collects and forwards supplies to Western Sanitary Commission and Northwestern Sanitary Commission--The Chicago Fair--The Charity Hospital at Cambridge established by her--Her cheerfulness and skill in her hospital work. 273-278
MRS. ALMIRA FALES.
The first woman to work for the soldiers--She commenced in December, 1860--Her continuous service--Amount of stores distributed by her-- Variety and severity of her work--Hospital Transport Service-- Harrison's Landing--Her work in Pope's campaign--Death of her son--Her sorrowful toil at Fredericksburg and Falmouth--Her peculiarities and humor. 279-283
CORNELIA HANCOCK.
Early labors for the soldiers--Mr. Vassar's testimony--Gettysburg--The campaign of 1864--Fredericksburg and City Point. 284-286
MRS. MARY MORRIS HUSBAND.
Her ancestry--Patriotic instincts of the family--Service in Philadelphia hospitals--Harrison's Landing--Nursing a sick son--Ministers to others there--Dr. Markland's testimony--At Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore-- Antietam--Smoketown Hospital--Associated with Miss M. M. C. Hall--Her admirable services as nurse there--Her personal appearance--The wonderful apron with its pockets--The battle-flag--Her heroism in contagious disease--Attachment of the soldiers for her--Her energy and activity--Her adventures after the battle of Chancellorsville--The Field Hospital near United States Ford--The forgetful surgeon--Matron of Third Division, Third Corps Hospital, Gettysburg--Camp Letterman--Illness of Mrs. Husband--Stationed at Camp Parole, Annapolis--Hospital at Brandy Station--The battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania--Overwhelming labor at Fredericksburg, Port Royal, White House, and City Point--Second Corps Hospital at City Point--Marching through Richmond--"Hurrah for mother Husband"--The visit to her "boys" at Bailey's Cross Roads-- Distribution of supplies--Mrs. Husband's labors for the pardon or commutation of the sentence of soldiers condemned by court-martial--Her museum and its treasures. 287-298
THE HOSPITAL TRANSPORT SERVICE.
The organization of this service by the United States Sanitary Commission--Difficulties encountered--Steamers and sailing vessels employed--The corps of ladies employed in the service--The headquarters' staff--Ladies plying on the Transports to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere--Work on the Daniel Webster--The Ocean Queen--Difficulties in providing as rapidly as was desired for the numerous patients--Duties of the ladies who belonged to the headquarters' staff--Description of scenes in the work by Miss Wormeley and Miss G. Woolsey--Taking on patients--"Butter on soft bread"-- "Guess I can stand h'isting better'n him"--"Spare the darning needles"--"Slippers only fit for pontoon bridges"--Visiting Government Transports--Scrambling eggs in a wash-basin--Subduing the captain of a tug--The battle of Fair Oaks--Bad management on Government Transports-- Sufferings of the wounded--Sanitary Commission relief tent at the wharf--Relief tents at White House depot at Savage's Station--The departure from White House--Arrival at Harrison's Landing--Running past the rebel batteries at City Point--"I'll take those mattresses you spoke of"--The wounded of the seven days' battles--"You are so kind, I--am so weak"--Exchanging prisoners under flag of truce. 299-315
OTHER LABORS