Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 7

OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOSPITAL TRANSPORT CORPS.
Miss Bradley, Miss Gilson, Mrs. Husband, Miss Charlotte Bradford, Mrs. W. P. Griffin, Miss H. D. Whetten. 316, 317
KATHERINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY.
Birth and parentage--Commencement of her labors for the soldiers--The Woman's Union Aid Society of Newport--She takes a contract for army clothing to furnish employment for soldiers' families--Forwarding sanitary goods--The hundred and fifty bed sacks--Miss Wormeley's connection with the Hospital Transport Service--Her extraordinary labors--Illness--Is appointed Lady Superintendent of the Lovell General Hospital at Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island--Her duties--Resigns in October, 1863--Her volume--"The United States Sanitary Commission"-- Other labors for the soldiers. 318-323
THE MISSES WOOLSEY.
Social position of the Woolsey sisters--Mrs. Joseph Howland and her labors on the Hospital Transport--Her tender and skilful nursing of the sick and wounded of her husband's regiment--Poem addressed to her by a soldier--Her encouragement and assistance to the women nurses appointed by Miss Dix--Mrs. Robert S. Howland--Her labors in the hospitals and at the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair--Her early death from over-exertion in connection with the fair--Her poetical contributions to the National cause--"In the hospital"--Miss Georgiana M. Woolsey--Labors on Hospital Transports--At Portsmouth Grove Hospital--After Chancellorsville--Her work at Gettysburg with her mother--"Three weeks at Gettysburg"--The approach to the battle-field--The Sanitary Commission's Lodge near the railroad depot--The supply tent--Crutches--Supplying rebels and Union men alike--Dressing wounds--"On dress parade"--"Bread with butter on it and jelly on the butter"--"Worth a penny a sniff"--The Gettysburg women--The Gettysburg farmers--"Had never seen a rebel"--"A feller might'er got hit"--"I couldn't leave my bread"--The dying soldiers-- "Tell her I love her"--The young rebel lieutenant--The colored freedmen--Praying for "Massa Lincoln"--The purple and blue and yellow handkerchiefs--"Only a blue one"--"The man who screamed so"--The German mother--The Oregon lieutenant--"Soup"--"Put some meat in a little water and stirred it round"--Miss Woolsey's rare capacities for her work-- Estimate of a lady friend--Miss Jane Stuart Woolsey--Labors in hospitals--Her charge of the Freedmen at Richmond--Miss Sarah C. Woolsey, at Portsmouth Grove Hospital. 324-342
ANNA MARIA ROSS.
Her parentage and family--Early devotion to works of charity and benevolence--Praying for success in soliciting aid for the unfortunate--The "black small-pox"--The conductor's wife--The Cooper Shop Hospital--Her incessant labors and tender care of her patients-- Her thoughtfulness for them when discharged--Her unselfish devotion to the good of others--Sending a soldier to his friends--"He must go or die"--The attachment of the soldiers to her--The home for discharged soldiers--Her efforts to provide the funds for it--Her success--The walk to South Street--Her sudden attack of paralysis and death--The monument and its inscription. 343-351
MRS. G. T. M. DAVIS.
Mrs. Davis a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts--A patriotic family--General Bartlett--She becomes Secretary of the Park Barracks Ladies' Association--The Bedloe's Island Hospital--The controversy-- Discharge of the surgeon--Withdrawal from the Association--The hospital at David's Island--Mrs. Davis's labors there--The Soldiers' Rest on Howard Street--She becomes the Secretary of the Ladies' Association connected with it--Visits to other hospitals--Gratitude of the men to whom she has ministered--Appeals to the women of Berkshire--Her encomiums on their abundant labors. 352-356
MARY J. SAFFORD.
Miss Safford a native of Vermont, but a resident of Cairo--Her thorough and extensive mental culture--She organizes temporary hospitals among the regiments stationed at Cairo--Visiting the wounded on the field after the battle of Belmont--Her extemporized flag of truce--Her remarkable and excessive labors after the battle of Shiloh--On the Hospital steamers--Among the hospitals at Cairo--"A merry Christmas" for the soldiers stationed at Cairo--Illness induced by her over-exertion-- Her tour in Europe--Her labors there, while in feeble health--Mrs. Livermore'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--I tell you what she's an angel if there is any". 357-361
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