Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 6

First Division
General Hospital, Naval Academy, Annapolis--The returned
prisoners--Their terrible condition--Mrs. Tyler procures photographs of
them--Impaired health--Resignation--She visits Europe, and spends
eighteen months there, advocating as she has opportunity the National
cause--The fiendish rebel spirit--Incident relative to President Lincoln's
assassination. 241-250
MRS. WILLIAM H. HOLSTEIN.
Social position of Mr. and Mrs. Holstein--Early labors for the soldiers

at home--The battle of Antietam--She goes with her husband to care for
the wounded--Her first emotions at the sight of the wounded--Three
years' 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