Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 9

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 AND MISS BLACKMAR. By Mrs. M. M. Husband.
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.
Missionary teachers before the war--Attending lectures to prepare for nursing--After the first battle of Bull Run--At Alexandria--The wounded from the battle-field--Incessant work--Ordered to Winchester, Virginia-- The Court-House Hospital--At Strasburg--General Banks' retreat-- Remaining among the enemy to care for the wounded--At Armory Square Hospital--The second Bull Run--Rapid but skilful care of the wounded-- Painful cases--Harper's Ferry--Twelfth Army Corps Hospital--The mother in search of her son--After Chancellorsville--The battle of Gettysburg-- Labors in the First and Twelfth Corps Hospitals--Sent to Murfreesboro', Tennessee--Rudeness of the Medical Director--Discomfort of their 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 of Sherman's campaign--"You are the God-blessedest woman I ever saw"-- Service to the close of the war and beyond--Lookout Mountain. 431-439
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, (Patent Office,) 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.
The Maine stay of the Annapolis Hospital--Miss Titcomb--Miss Newhall-- Miss Usher--Other ladies from Maine--The Maine camp and Hospital Association--Mrs. Eaton--Mrs. Fogg--Mrs. Mayhew--Miss Mary A. Dupee and her labors--Miss Abbie J. Howe--Her labors for the spiritual as well as physical