Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 7

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 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