Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 5

Perils of the
voyage--Severe and incessant labor--The contrabands at
Helena--Touching incidents of the wounded on the hospital boats--"The
service pays"--In the hospitals at St. Louis--Impaired health--She goes
eastward for rest and recovery--A year of weakness and weariness--In
the hospital at Philadelphia--A ministering angel--Colonel Porter her
brother-in-law killed at Cold Harbor--She goes to Baltimore to meet the
body--Is seized with typhoid fever and dies after five weeks illness.
187-199
MRS. STEPHEN BARKER.
Family of Mrs. Barker--Her husband Chaplain of First Massachusetts
Heavy Artillery--She accompanies him to Washington--Devotes herself
to the work of visiting the hospitals--Thanksgiving dinner in the
hospital--She removes to Fort Albany and takes charge as Matron of
the Regimental Hospital--Pleasant experiences--Reading to the
soldiers--Two years of labor--Return to Washington in January,
1864--She becomes one of the hospital visitors of the Sanitary
Commission--Ten hospitals a week-- Remitting the soldiers' money and
valuables to their families--The service of Mr. and Mrs. Barker as
lecturers and missionaries of the Sanitary Commission to the Aid
Societies in the smaller cities and villages--The distribution of supplies
to the disbanding armies--Her report. 200-211
AMY M. BRADLEY.
Childhood of Miss Bradley--Her experiences as a teacher--Residence in
Charleston, South Carolina--Two years of illness--Goes to Costa Rica--
Three years of teaching in Central America--Return to the United
States--Becomes corresponding clerk and translator in a large glass
manufactory--Beginning of the war--She determines to go as a nurse--
Writes to Dr. Palmer--His quaint reply--Her first experience as nurse in
a regimental hospital--Skill and tact in managing it--Promoted by

General Slocum to the charge of the Brigade Hospital--Hospital
Transport Service--Over-exertion and need of rest--The organization of
the Soldiers' Home at Washington--Visiting hospitals at her
leisure--Camp Misery--Wretched condition of the men--The
rendezvous of distribution-- Miss Bradley goes thither as Sanitary
Commission Agent--Her zealous and multifarious labors--Bringing in
the discharged men for their papers-- Procuring the correction of their
papers, and the reinstatement of the men--"The Soldiers' Journal"--Miss
Bradley's object in its establishment--Its success--Presents to Miss
Bradley--Personal appearance. 212-224
MRS. 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 to the wounded or sick soldiers--Joins the Sanitary
Commission in July, 1862, and labors among the sick and wounded at
Harrison's Landing till late in August--Colonel Barlow severely
wounded at Antietam--Mrs. Barlow nurses him with great tenderness,
and at the same time ministers to the wounded of Sedgwick
Hospital--At Chancellorsville and Gettysburg--General Barlow again
wounded, and in the enemy's lines--She removes him and succors the
wounded in the intervals of her care of him--In May, 1864, she was
actively engaged at Belle Plain, Fredericksburg, Port Royal, White
House, and City Point-- Her incessant labor brought on fever and
caused her death July 27, 1864--Tribute of the Sanitary Commission
Bulletin, Dr. Lieber and others, to her memory. 225-233
MRS. NELLIE MARIA TAYLOR.
Parentage and early history--Removal to New Orleans--Her son urged
to enlist in the rebel army--He is sent North--The rebels persecute Mrs.
Taylor--Her dismissal from her position as principal of one of the city
schools--Her house mobbed--"I am for the Union, tear my house down
if you choose!"--Her house searched seven times for the flag--The
Judge's son--"A piece of Southern chivalry"--Her son enlists in the
rebel army to save her from molestation--New Orleans occupied by the
Union forces-- Mrs. Taylor reinstated as teacher--She nurses the

soldiers in the hospitals, during her vacations and in all the leisure
hours from her school duties, her daughter filling up the intermediate
time with her services--She expends her entire salary upon the sick and
wounded-- Writes eleven hundred and seventy-four letters for them in
one year-- Distributes the supplies received from the Cincinnati Branch
of Sanitary Commission in 1864, and during the summer takes the
management of the special diet of the University Hospital--Testimony
of the soldiers to her labors--Patriotism and zeal of her children--Terms
on which Miss Alice Taylor would present a confederate flag to a
company. 234-240
MRS. ADALINE TYLER.
Residence in Boston--Removal to Baltimore--Becomes Superintendent
of a Protestant Sisterhood in that city--Duties of the Sisterhood--The
"Church Home"--Other duties of "Sister" Tyler--The opening of the
war--The Baltimore mob--Wounding and killing members of the Sixth
Massachusetts regiment--Mrs. Tyler hears that Massachusetts men are
wounded and seeks admission to them--Is refused--She persists, and
threatening an appeal to Governor Andrew is finally admitted--She
takes those most severely wounded to the "Church Home," procures
surgical attendance for them, and nurses them till their recovery--Other
Union wounded nursed by her--Receives the thanks of the
Massachusetts Legislature and Governor--Is appointed Superintendent
of the Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore--Resigns at the end of a year,
and visits New York--The surgeon-general urges her to take charge of
the large hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania--She remains at Chester till
the hospital is broken up, when she is transferred to the