Womans Work in the Civil War | Page 9

grateful soldiers. 404-415
MRS. HARRIET FOOTE HAWLEY. By Mrs. H. B. Stowe.
Mrs. Hawley accompanies her husband, Colonel Hawley, to South
Carolina--Teaching the freedmen--Visiting the hospitals at Beaufort,
Fernandina and St. Augustine--After Olustee--At the Armory Square
Hospital, Washington--The surgical operations performed in the
ward--"Reaching the hospital only in time to die"--At Wilmington--
Frightful condition of Union prisoners--Typhus fever raging--The
dangers greater than those of the battle-field--Four thousand sick-- Mrs.
Hawley's heroism, and incessant labors--At Richmond--Injured by the
upsetting of an ambulance--Labors among the freedmen--Colonel
Higginson's speech. 416-419
ELLEN E. MITCHELL.
Her family--Motives in entering on the work of ministering to the

soldiers--Receives instructions at Bellevue Hospital--Receives a nurse's
pay and gives it to the suffering soldiers--At 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