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Give her the soldier's rite ! She fought the hardest fight ; Not in the storm of battle, W here the drum's exultant rattle. The onset's maddening Xiell, The scream of shot and shell. And the trumpets clangor soaring Over the cannons roaring. Thrilled every) ccin with fire, A nd combat J mad desire ; She fought her fight alone. To the sound of dying groan ; .. The sob of failing breath. ".•'. The reiellie of death , • ** She fticed the last of foes, .**. '.'i'hc'Ti'orst of. mortal Woes

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The solitude of dying. The hearts for kindred crying ; By the soldier's lonely bed In the midnight dark and dread, 'Mid the wounded and the dead. With lifeblood pouring red. The cries of rvoe and fear. Rending the watcher's ear, The hovering wings of death, Fluttered by dving breath. There was her truthful eve, Her smiles sweet bravery. Her strong Word to impart Peace to the fainting heart

ROSE TERRY COOK.

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(7T HE question has been asked, "Why are those old Army VJs^-t

Nurses feted and cared for so tenderly at the National Encamp- ments of the G. A. R.? What good can they do for the Grand Army?

7T\ HIS question we leave for the veterans themselves to answer. They will tell you that in the grey- haired, bent forms of these veteran nurses many of them recognize the gentle face upon which their eyes rested when they first opened after the work of the surgeon's knife was done; or the cool hands that smoothed the fevered brow or held the cooling drink to the parched lips. These are the women who, in their early womanhood, filled with the same patriotism that sent to the defense of the flag their husbands, fathers, brothers, and lovers, went to the front to care for the sick and wounded.

ij T can scarcely be realized in this age, when the glorious Red Cross, with its perfect system of trained nurses, has made the vocation of a nurse an honorable one, when our Government is employing women as nurses, what nerve and patriotic devotion it took for the young women of the sixties to brave public opinion and enlist for hospital and field service.

A T the beginning of the Civil War, Dorothy Dix, that grand " Angel of Mercy," offered her services to the Government, and was appointed to enroll women for hospital nurses; but as she would take none under thirty years of age, scores of young matrons and maidens who had seen their loved ones march to the front, offered their services independently, and were enrolled by surgeons, generals and colonels of regiments, serving without pay and rendering heroic service. The history of the nurses of the Civil War has been an almost unwritten one. When the war closed they went quietly to their homes, and took up again the daily routine of woman's work.

■jj N 1881 Miss Dix invited all nurses whom she could reach to meet her in Washington, and many responded. An organ- ization was formed, called the Ex- Nurse's Association of the District of Columbia, to meet each year in Washington. Miss

Dix was elected president for life, but in 1887 her busy life ended, and

Dr. Susan Edson succeeded her. She soon resigned, and Miss Harriet

P. Dame filled the office until she too folded her hands, her work being done.

9V T the Encampment in 1892, there were quite a number of Nurses at Washington, and as not nearly all were members of the District Association, Mrs. Addie L. Ballou of San Francisco, Cal., called them together and organized the National Association of Army Nurses of the Late War, with thirty-five members. Mrs. Ballou was elected president and Miss Hancock of Philadelphia secretary. The Association was to meet at each National Encampment.

iJil RS. Ballou was too far away to attend the two following Encamp- ments, and the little society held no convention, but when the National Encampment was held in 1895 at Louisville, Kentucky, Mrs. Emily E. Woodley of Philadelphia, at the request of comrades of the G. A. R., called the nurses present together and re-organized the Association. By-laws and rules and regulations were adopted, and Mrs. Woodley was elected National President and the document containing the formation of the Association was registered before a notary public in Louisville. Mrs. Woodley was continued as president for three years and did much to establish and strengthen the organization.

TTT HE object of the Association is to keep green the memories of those days of civil strife, to keep in touch with the Grand Army of the Republic in its efforts to perpetuate the grand principles for which the boys in blue fought and died, to seek out and aid unfortunate and needy nurses, and assist in procuring pensions. TTT HOSE admitted to membership must be women of good moral character, who served at least three months as a regular or volunteer nurse. Applications for membership must be en- dorsed by the applicant's nearest Post of the G. A. R.

A I Cincinnatti n 1901 the title of the Association was changed to National

Association of Army Nurses of the Qvil War. instead of the "Lair War," to distinguish it from the National Association o( Nurses ot the Spanish- American War.

Til \ Act of Congress in IH92 all nurses who were employed and paid b)

the Government are entitled to .1 pension ot twelve dollars ($1-) |*'r

month, but no pension is allowed the voluntea nurses, who rendered equally

good service and endured the dangers and disiotntorts ol Camp and field A bill, however, is before Congress which it is hoped will be passed and which will place the volunteer on an equal basis with the regular nurses.

iU \ Act of Congress, all nurses ol tlie ( ivil War are entitled U> burial in

National Cemeteries, and several sleep the last deep at beautiful Arlington

TjT HE first organization of nurses ol the Civil War was the \ eteran Nurses Association, which was formed in Philadelphia dunng the war. I his was succeeded by the Andrew G. ( uitin Nurse Corps ol Philadelphia, which was disbanded July 191(1

4XI \SSAC1 IL'SL I IS also has a State society, which meets regularly at the State House. It has a membership of about thirty.

7T I IE following named ladies have succeeded Mrs. Ballon and Mrs. Wood- ley as National Presidents: Mrs. Elizabeth Ewiag ol 1'ninsylvania

(deceased), Mrs. .Ada Johnson ot Missouri (two terms), Mrs. Delia A. B. Fay of New York, Mrs. Margaret Hamilton of Massachusetts, Mrs. Addie L. Ballon of California, Mrs. f-anny T. Hazen of Massachusetts, (two terms), \1- ( larissa f" . Dve ol Pennsylvania (two terms), and Mrs. Rebecca S. Smith of Minnesota

Ty 1 IE officers chosen at the convention were: National President. Mary E. Lacy, Salt Lake City, L tah; Senior Vice-President. Catherine L. Taylor, New York City. N. Y . Junior Vice-President, Hannah J. Starbird, Reno, Nev.; National Treasurer. Salome M. Stewart, Gettysburg. Pa.; National Chaplin. I iannah U. Maxon. Gallipolis, Ohio, (deceased); National Con- ductor, Mary E. Squire, Sheboygan. Wis.; National Guard, Elizabeth Chap- man. East St. Louis. III.; National Secretary. Kate M. Scott, Brookville, Pa.; National Counsellor. Rebecca S. Smith, Minneapolis, Minn.; National Aide and Clnrl ol Staff .Lettie E. C. Buckley, Chicago, 111.; Surgeon, Nancy M. Hill, Dubuque. Iowa . Coloi Bearer. Susanna Krips, Philadelphia, Pa.

A I Toledo Ohio, in I90H. Latavelte Post. G. A. R.. of New York ( 1 1 v . presented an elegant silk flag to the .Association, which will wave a salute to the veterans at Allantu City as they march in review and as long as the G. A. R. and Nurses ot the Civil Wai have enough veterans left to meet at Encampments.

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PRIOR to 1901 , when Col. F. M. Sterrett look the jlssociation in charge, it Was not enter- tained at the National Encampment, as a body, nor seats provided for reviewing the parade, but since that time the Nurses of the Civil War have been handsomely entertained by each City where the National Encampment is held, at good hotels, and every attention given to each and all of them. Jit Cleveland, Washington City, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, Saratoga Springs, Toledo and Salt Lake City, the Association Was largely

represented for such a small organization. Col. Sterrett at each Encampment has given personal attention to their pleasure and

comfort endearing him to all these women Veterans of the sixties.

The following correspondence will explain how this little booklet came into existence. It being the idea of Col. Sterrett to give this tribute to the National Association of Nurses of the Civil War. The Correspondence between Col. Sterrett and Miss Kate M. Scott, National Secretary of the Association, gives this in full.

Atlantic City, N. J., March 17, 1910

Dear Miss Scott, -

If possible for you to procure a photograph of each of the Army Nurses, with a statement of age and service, com- piled in a paragraph and send same to me, I would like to use it in a booklet to which, I presume they would not object.

I know the question of age with a lady is usually hedged with some hesitancy in answering, but since each of you served in the war of the rebellion which commenced, lacking one year, fifty years ago, the presumption is that none of you will answer to less than three-score and ten, and at that age there will not be much hesitancy in answering this usually delicate question of age.

Miss Kate M. Scott, 296 Jefferson St., Brookville, Pa.

Very truly,

( Signed ) F. M. STERRETT, Executive Director.

P. S. If you undertake and complete this work I shall like to print above letter and your reply to the same.

Brookville, Pa., March 20th 1910. Col. F. M. Sterrett,

Executive Director G. A. R. Encampment, Atlantic City, N. J., My Dear Col. Sterrett, -

Your favor of 17th inst. received, and I am at a loss how to reply, for while I appreciate the honor you have in view for our Association and the pleasure it would give the Nurses, I fear I cannot secure photos and data for personal sketches in time for your purpose.

I could however, send to each one a circular letter asking for her photo and facts in regard to her service, as will be necessary to use in the preparation of the contemplated work .

Fraternally yours,

(Signed") Kate M. ScoTT.

Atlantic City, N. J., March 24th 1910

Dear Miss Scott, -

Yours of the 20th inst. at hand. I wish you would write to each of the nurses on your Roster telling them of my plan to have each of their photographs in a little booklet for distribution at the 44th National Encampment, and say

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them. tli.it the photographs must reach me b) the first daj ol June, and that those which reach me later than that date, can- not be used. Iii this w;i\ the} could blame onh themselves it the photographs and biographical paragraph did not appear, [f vim will kindl} take this matter u]> .it once and send me the fust of the work, I will take pleasure in remitting you the amount.

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Miss Kate M Scott 296 Jefferson Si., Brookville, Pa

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Brook\ illt. Pa March 29th roio

Dear Colonel Sterretl

Replying to your favor of the 24th m-t . 1 wish to assure you that 1 will il<> mj U-st to help you <>tit in obtaining

data for the Nurses 1 klet and my idea is to send out .1

circular lettei to < ich memh ir Association, asking them

to send you what you desire, Please let me know size of p and jusi liow much space will be allotted to ea< h one.

I will make it plain that no length} biograph} will ■ Usui, nil, and that nothing will be considered after June tst.

Please let me know whether you approve of this plan

Fraternallj yours

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Atlantii \ J April tst

Dear .Miss S< ott,-

Yours <>t' the 29th ult. at hand, Your plan of writ- ing a circular letter to each of the Nurses with the series of questions mentioned is just right, and it' you desire t<> employ someone to address ana mail the envelopes, of course you should do so, Simply render the bill and I will send you check for same. Those who do not reply, will have them- selves to thank for being left out. I would s.u to the nurses

that the} should comprehend their little biograph within roo words and in n,> case more than [50 will be used

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Miss Kate M Scott,

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Brookville, Pa

Fraternally,

- .in .1 1 . M. ST] kki it. Executh e I director.

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Atlantic Cit} . N J 1 »ear Sir

Your letter just received, and with its arrival .onus the letter I am sending out, which I will enclose for your inspection I did not think of having a stenographer, but as the quickest and for me easiest method was to have the letters printed, 1 have done so, and expect to have all read} to mail b} Monday, but will hold these until I hear from } on.

I thought b} confining them to the questions asked. I would get uniform answers.

If you wish anything added or have am suggestions

to 1, tfei. as I .mi under \ our orders. I will hold the letters

until I hear from 5 ou.

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K \TI M SCI NT

Kr. .ok\ die. Pa., April s. [910

I am in receipt of a Utter from Col 1- M Sterrett, Executive Director nth National Encampment, G. A. R., ask- ing that each member of the Arm} Nurses Association furnish him with a photograph and information regarding service, etc. for publication in the Encampment booklet. This informotion and photograph must be in the hands of Col. Sterrett on or be- June ist. No Liter communications will be considered I am, therefore, attaching to this letter a blank which when

filled out by you will give information desired. Fill it < ut at once, if possible, and enclose with photograph, mailing direct to Col. Sterrett, at the address given below.

Fraternally yours,

(Signed) Kate M. Scott, National Secretary, Association Army Nurses.

Col. P. M. Sterrett,

Atlantic and New York Avenues, Atlantic City, N. J. Dear Sir,-

The information herewith is sent you at the request of Kate M. Scott, National Secretary Army Nurses of the Civil War, for use in the encampment publication.

Name

Present Address

Age

Name under which service was given

Length of service Where ?

Volunteer or regular ?

Are you receiving a pension ?.

Atlantic City, N. J., April 8th 1910

Dear Miss Scott, -

Yours of the 2nd inst. at hand. I think your cir- cular letter all right, and advise them to he sent out at once in order that we may give them as much time to answer as possible in the prescribed time. FMS-K. Very truly,

F. M. STERRETT, Miss Kate M. Scott, Executive Director.

Brookville, Pa.

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Mrs. Ballou. at the beginning <>l the ( ivil War, offered her lenrice* to the Governor of Wisconsin. She began her service as nurse in camp for the sick of the Thirty-Second NX isconsin mlanlry at Oshkosh. and later was commissioned by Surgeon General Walcott a( Milwaukee. When the regiment reached Tennessee she was sent with 255 sick soldiers to Keokuk, Iowa. On the return of her regiment to Memphis she served in the hospital barracks, and General Forrester's Church nursing hundreds through a terrible epidemic.

Mrs. Ballou has resided for a number of years at San Francisco, where she has won distinction as an artist and i- well known in journalism. She is a forceful, earnest speaker having published a much praised volume of poems entitled "Driftwood."

Mrs. Ballou lost everything in the earthquake and fire at San Francisco and was subsequently hurt by a fall from a crowded street car.

iiini. Emily E. lUimMru

Past National Preside nt

Mrs. Woodley, in 1895 at Louisville, Kentucky, reorganized the National

\ssoiiation of Nurses of the Civil War at the request of members of the

Grand Army of the Republic, as the association was practically disbanded

owing to the inability <>l Mrs. Ballou. the National President, elected in 1892,

to be present.

Mrs. Woodley had fitted herself for the work during the Cholera epi- demic in Philadelphia, and when the Civil War broke out, she at once went to the front, enlisting May 29th, 1861, doing excellent service until she was discharged May 26th, 1865.

She served on the field with the Potomac Army and also in the west. During the war she was known as "Mother Wilson," by which she is held in loving remembrance by many whom she cared for during her service of four years. She served as National President from 1895 to 1898.

Her whole heart was in the work and she did much to build up the

organization. She died at her home in Philadelphia, May 15. 1908. Mrs.

Woodley s last meeting with the Association was at the Encampment at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. in 1907.

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Past National President

Mrs. Ewing was elected National President of the Association at Cinn., Ohio in 1898 and served one year. Her husband, who was a member of the Pennsylvania Reserves, having been wounded at Malvern Hill, Va. and sent to the U. S. Hospital in Baltimore, Md., she at once went to nurse him leaving her young babe with her mother. After her husband recovered, she offered her services and was enrolled as a nurse by the Surgeon in charge of the U. S. General Hospital, West Building, Baltimore, in Oct. 1862 and was discharged in Sept. 1863.

Mrs. Ewing's hardest work was caring for the Union Soldiers who were brought from Southern prisons many of them so starved and emaciated that she had to feed them like little babes. She also nursed many confederate Prisoners.

Mrs. Ewing died at her home in Phoenixville, Pa., in 1905, after a long and painful illness.

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Past National President

Miss Johnson was elected National President at Philadelphia in 1899 and served two years.

When the war broke out she was teaching school at her home in Con- neaut, Ohio, but at once offered her services to Miss Dorothy Dix, and was accepted. She served in the hospital in St. Louis, nursing the worst cases of wounded from the battlefield of Wilson's Creek, Springfield and Donaldson, also on the first hospital boat on the Mississippi river making scores of trips.

She went after the wounded at Corinth in a cattle car, her last service was at Camp Joe Holt, opposite Louisville, Ky. She remained until peace was declared, when she returned to St. Louis.

Miss Johnson's term of service was probably longest of any Civil War Nurse. She enlisted in August 1861, and served until November 1865, over four years.

After the war she taught school for thirty years in St. Louis. She died January 10, 1910. Miss Johnson was a cousin of Major E. S. Johnson, Superintendent of Lincoln Park and Lincoln Tomb, Springfield, III., and was an honorary member of the Seventh Illinois Vol. infantry.

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Pakt National Put moent

She marched with her regiment and went on every battlefield in which it was engaged, caring (or the wounded in the face of shot and shell

Mrs. Fay, in the summer of 1864, was exposed to the heaviest fire at Drury s Bluff. Forty of her regiment were killed and many wounded. She escaped unhurt.

Mrs. Fay after the war closed, was offered a Major's Commission by the Governor of New York but declined the honor.

She was afterwards in the Yorktown Hospital until the ( ,t\ m ,1- evacuated. She distributed supplies at Hampton Hospital from June I i. 1865 until her regiment was mustered out. She cared for her blind hus- band, caused by wounds, until he died. She died May 27, 1908.

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Pa^-st National Phesioent Mn I l.unilton was born in Rochester, N. Y.. Oct. 19, 1840. I lei mother died in 1857 and three years later she became with her father s nl ,i -i-ler of charity and after thorough preparation was sent to teach in the Orphan Asylum at Albany. N. Y. In the Spring of 1862 she was sent with three other ^i<ler^ to the Satterlea U. S. Hospital at Philadelphia, her hr^l duties being to care for the wounded from Chickamauga.

For three years she did excellent service after which she left the sisterhood and married a soldier of the nineteenth Maine Volunteers. She is now a widow and resides at Wakefield. She served as National President of the Nurses' Association in I'XH San Francirco. She receives a pension.

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Past National. President Mrs. Fanny Titus Hazen is the granddaughter of a soldier of the Revolution and was born in Vershire, Vt. May 2, 1 840.

When she tried to enlist as a nurse, Miss Dix would not accept her on account of her youth, but she had two brothers seventeen and eighteen years old in the service and she begged to stay. Miss Dix sent her to the Columbian Hospital, Washington, where she served until it was closed, June 27, 1865.

Her youngest brother was one of the wounded brought to her from the battle of Cold Harbor, Va.

Mrs. Hazen is a Past National President of the National Association, Nurses Civil War and President of the Massachusetts Association. She receives a pension. Her address is 61 Oxford St., Cambridge, Mass.

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Past National President In 1862 was Miss Clarissa F. Jones engaged in teaching but devoted her vacation to field and hospital work in company with Miss Marie McClillan of Germantown, Pa.

In 1862, on the Steamer Maine, then with a pass from Miss Dix to Alex- andria, Va. and then to the Lyceum Military Hospitals until Oct. 1862. She reached the battle of Fredericksburg in December ahead of all others. In 1863 she nursed in the Second Corps Hospital at Gettysburg, having charge of the Confederate wounded. From Gettysburg to Rapahannock from which place she conducted supplies to Broad Stations which were supplied by tons from her home friends at Germantown. Mrs. Dye furn- ished a substitute for the war who served to the close with honor.

After the war Miss Jones married Mr. John H. Dye of Philadelphia. She is now a widow and resides at 202 W. Rittenhouse St., Germantown. She is over 77 years of age and receives no pension. She is the only woman who received a medal of honor during the war.

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Diphtheria brolu out among 1 1 . » oldiei in 1862 Sh< al . .if loi them, and aftef thai wai conbnuoi until IHM

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Miss Palmer reside ..i ( anastoga \ Y. and h Hi yean <A w- She

.... i.i i v . i a , ,i i receives a pension ol $1^ |>'-i month. Miss Palmer was Secretary oi the

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National President

Mrs. Lacey. President ol the National Association Arnn Nurses oi the Civil \X ar. was born at Plymouth. Mass.. and when only fifteen married John H. Roby of Gloucester. N. J., who. a few months atter. enlisted in the First New Jersey Infantry in response to the first call for 73.000 men. At the battle of Cold Harbor. \ a., he " as w ounded and his wife took care of him at the L. S. General Hospital. Philadelphia.

Mrs. Roby had offered her services as a nurse at the beginning of the w ar. but on account of her youth Miss Dix refused to accept her and she then went to Miss Anne Moms, who had charge of the Cooper Refreshment Saloon, where she was put to work picking lint and making bandages. From there she went to the L. S. General Hospital, where the most of her services were rendered. Mrs. Roby's husband died soon after the war from the effect of wounds received in action, and later ohe married John E Lacey who died in 1863. Mis Lacev is sixtv-six and receives a pension. Her address is I S W avne Ave.. Salt Lake Citv. I. tah.

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Senior Vice-President Mrs T.ivUv served as a volunteer nurse from 1862 to 1863 about three vears in the L . S. General Hospital at Davids Island. New York Harbor. Mrs. Taylor had made application to go to the front as a nurse but Mrs. General Dix would not approve her application, saying she could do more at home, while others older v»ere better at the front

Mrs. Taylor then residing at Dobb's Ferry, and had her own horse and carnage to carry loads of supplies and dainties for the sick and wounded soldiers, which the Government did not furnish, also furnishing food for the families and soldiers at the front.

Mrs. Taylor resides at 891 Amsterdam Ave. New ^ ork CSj years of age and receives a pension. She is Senior \ ice -President.

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Mrs. Starbird under her maiden name. Miss Hannah E. Judkins of Skowhegan, was enlisted as a nurse in August 1864. She reported at Carver Hospital, Washington, D. C. was there three weeks, then trans- ferred to St. John's College Hospital, Annapolis. Md. where she remained until July 1865, when the hospital was broken up.

Mrs. Starbird nursed paroled prisoners brought on the hrst boats

from Libby, Andersonville, and other rebel prisoners, and says she cannot

describe the poor, starved men with little clothing, their feet bound uj> in

rags, covered with vermin and no one, not seeing them, could imagine their

condition. Later the boats were met by the boats of the U. S. Sanitary

Commission, and their clothing changed at sea, making it easier for the nurses.

Mrs. Starbird was paid thirteen dollars per month as were all contract nurses. She is Junior Vice-President of the National Association and re- sides at 2646 Magnolia Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.

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National Chaplain \liv< Hannah U. Maxon became identified with the National Association .it Army Nurses but a few years ago. She was made its Chaplain in I'XPJ So marked was her ability that she soon won the respect of her associates and with her seeming good health, her energetic character and her charming manner she would soon have been a leader.

Miss Maxon became interested in army work at the beginning of the rc- l>ellion and served as nurse, in the hospital in her native town of Gallipolis, Ohio, till its close. By her zeal and activity she took a leading part and brought comfort and solace to many a weary one, who was far away from home and from the soothing hand to make smooth his dying pillow. Miss Maxon died May 26th 1910.

"lather in Thy gracious keeping Leave we now Thy servant sleeping."

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National Secretary Miss Scott served during Winter and Spring of 1 86 1 — 62 with the One

Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment at Camp Jameson, Va. She

volunteered in response to a call from Colonel Amos McKnight for nurses

for his regiment, many of whom were dying from fever and pneumonia and

during the Winter was twice quarantined with Miss Ellen Guffy, her

associate nurse, the latter being stricken with the dread disease.

Since the war Miss Scott has been closely identified with her regiment, is a member of its Regimental Association being its secretary from 1879 — 91. She is 72 years of age, resides at Brookville, Pa. and has been Secretary of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War since 1897.

Miss Scott receives a pension by special Act of Congress.

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National Treasurer

Mrs. Stewart served under the maiden name of Miss Sallie Myers. She was a volunteer nurse. She resided at Gettysburg and during and after the battle cared for the wounded in her father's house, which was used as a hospital and also in the Roman Catholic and United Presbyterian Churches, where the first Division Corps Hospital was opened, and in Gamp Letter- man, the general hospital established east of the town. Her services of three months were all voluntary. She does not receive a pension. Her address is 228 Baltimore St., Gettysburg. She is the widow of the brother of a wounded soldier who died in her father's house. Her husband a Presbyterian minister died in 1868 of injuries received in the service. She was a teacher in the public Schools before the war, has taught for twenty- five years, and is now a substitute teacher in the Gettysburg schools.

Mrs. Stewart has been Treasurer of the National Association of Nurses of the Civil War for seven years. She was appointed one of the enumer- ators of the late census.

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National Co m duotor

Miss M. Emily ( hamberlin enlisted .it Washington Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, May IttM. serving there till October when she was Iran*!' to the Officer's Hospital leu a service of two months, returning to the Washington Hospital in December. Here she remawed until the first of April 1864, when she was ordered to the Webster Hospital, remaining there until she left the service in June. 1864.

Mrs. Squire is 66 years of age. Her address is Sheboygan. Wisconsin. .Slu was a regular nurse anil r< i pension of $12 \xr month.

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Mr- ( bapman served i In »•. months as a volunteer nurse and then enlisted as a contract nurse for the balance of the War. She was sent to Memphis as a regular nurse where the boys in her husband s regiment had measles. She was mustered out at Keokuk, Iowa, in Leighton House Hospital with an honorable discharge. She has been connected with the Association of Arm) Nurses since its organization and is now Past National Chaplain , is 7'' years of age and receives a pension of $12 a month. I ler present ad- dress is 100-A N. 5th St.. East St. Louis. Illinois

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Mrs. Buckley served as a nurse, being enlisted by Sanitary Commission,

rider her maiden name, Miss Lettie E. Covell from October 1863 to

June 1865 at Memphis in the Washington and Adams Hospitals at

Memphis, Tennessee.

Mrs. Buckley is 73 years of age and receives a pension.

She has held several offices in the Association. Her address is 1955

North Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois.

Mrs. Krips enlisted as a nurse in 1863 serving with the Second Pennsyl- vania Heavy artillery for 5 months, also at Capitol Hill Hospital, Washing- ton, D. C. ; Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore and Hough General Hospital, Alex- andria.

Mrs. Krips was prostrated with an attack of Typhoid Fever which de- stroyed the hearing of her right ear. During her illness she was attended by Dr. Elliott, Surgeon in charge and Miss Plummer, a fellow nurse. She belongs to the Association of Army Nurses and has held several offices.

Mrs. Krips resides at 3334 N. Second St., Philadelphia, and is 68 years of age. Her term of service was 2 years and six months. She receives a pension.

ifln.. ittaru (£. Allium

Mrs. fflaru A. Anton

Mrs. Alhow served as ,i volunteer nurse (oi eighteen month* From I eh 1864 to dose ot the wai m \tM>i. serving .ii Holston Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee; Sedgwick, Louisville, Kentucky; C .im j ■ Nelson.

She served under Mrs Annie Wittenmeyei <>l the United States San itary Commission. Mrs Athow is tin- widow of a veteran of the C nil War, is seventy-five years of age and receives a pension of $12 per month. Her home is at 286 Fox St., Aurora, lllinoi-

Mrs. .Aston served under Surgeon B. S. Kenderdine in the Hospital at Broad and Washington Streets and the Christian Street Hospital, Phila- delphia, from September 5th 1862 to August I Ith 1865 as a Volunteer Nurse. Her husband Iwing an invalid was unable to render aid to his • iiunttv but was willing for his wife to do as her heart dictated and she rendered valient service, only being absent from duty two weeks during her husbands last illness and death. Mrs. .Aston became deal by the explosion of a cannon while engaged in performing her dutu a

She is 76 years of age. lives in Philadelphia and receives a pension of $12 per month.

Mrs. Srllf Alter

Mrs. Alter served as a volunteer nurse as Miss Belle Thompson. She began her work ia September, 1864, in the Taylor House Hospital at Winchester, Virginia., being assigned to duty by Dr. S. Sharpe, who was surgeon in charge and assisted in caring for the wounded from Frohus Hill and Cedar Creek battle fields until the middle of Jan., 1 865, when she brought

home her brother, Captain Thompson of Company A, 40th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was badly wounded and for two years she nursed him, a helpless cripple.

Mrs. Alter is sixty-three years of age and resides at Port Royal, Penna. She does not receive a pension.

iHra. Htzatetij Italbrftip

Mrs. Baldridge served as a volunteer nurse for nine months at Memphis,

Te inessee. She served under her maiden name, Miss Elizabeth Lee.

Mrs. Baldridge is 77 years of age and receives a pension. Her address

is Pomona, California.

ittrs. Anna fi. Uuihrr.

Mr*, gathrrittr ifl. Ulrrk

Mrs. Baker served as a volunteei nurse in the ( itizeni V Olunl pital at Philadelphia (or (our years. She i \T% of age. I la kddreM

.s 1122 S. 45th St. Philadelphia, Pa

After the first great battle the wounded were sent in great numbers to northern points. Temporary hospitals were established at Philadelphia and hundreds arriving at one time, whose wounds had not been cared for. The firemen of the city on the arrival of the wounded rang their bells and the volunteer nurses were always near to answer the call, remaining at the hospital as long as needed. As many as 2500 arriving in one day.

The worst cases of sick and wounded were cared for until able to be sent to their homes or to other hospitals. Mrs. Baker served in this hospital faithfully, nursing the sick and wounded, from September 5, 1862 until August 9, 1864.

Mrs. Beck served five mor.thi is a volunteer nurse at Fort Leavenworth,

Kansas, at which place she was living during the Civil War.

She is 77 years of age and does not receive a pension. Her present

address is 1060 Denver Ave., Los AngeUs, California.

Mvb. ilary £ Irll

Mrs. Bell enlisted as a volunteer nurse. Her first work was at Coving- ton, Kentucky, assisting her husband, who was in the medical department, where there was an epidemic of measles. When her regiment reached camp (place not given) smallpox and spotted fever broke out and many died. She also served at the Jeffersonville, Indiana, hospital. Her service

extended over three years but no dates of enlistment or discharge are given. She was appointed Matron by Dr. Albright, Surgeon Second Ohio

heavy artillery; is sixty-nine years of age and resides at Albion, Michigan.

Ifrnrirtta £\ 5L Imtncll.

Mrs. Henrietta S. T. Bunnell a former War Nurse and widow of Sergeant David S. Bunnell of the 1 I Oth Pennsylvania Regiment died on the 23rd of June 1910, aged 82 years.

During the Civil War Mrs. Bunnell rendered efficient service in Phila- delphia and Harpers Ferry hospitals. She received a certificate as a nurse from Governor Curtin. After serving throughout the war, Mrs. Bunnell was prominently identified with the Andrew G. Curtin Nurse Corps which dissolved a few months ago.

Mrs. Bunnell was the mother of twenty-one children, six of whom sur- vive her, also eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. As a mother she stands pre-eminently, every one loved her and it is with sorrow the writer must announce at the coming Convention that the "little mother" will meet with us no more.

iflrri. Sflcn ifl. llUinirU.

Mrs. Burnell served under her maiden nam'-. Helen M B', kit. was a regular nurse in Adam-. Hospital, Memphis, I ■■nn. (or (wo years and

iths.

She is now eighty years of age and resides at I I 10 Windsor Place, S.

Pasadena, California.

She receives a pension of twelve dollars per month

Hire. Iflarii LK. Uuiuiuuliui

\1rv Boyington's husband, a member of Company L., one hundred and fifth Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, was seriously wounded at Gettysburg and she wer.t to that field to care for him, accompanying him when sent to the hospital at York, Pa., where she was enrolled as a nurse, serving from July. 1863. until March. I MM. when het services received the warm com- mendation of the surgeons in charge

She is 67 years of age and resides at Carner. Oklahoma. She does not

receive a pension. She is Dcpartmer.l President of the Association for Oklahoma.

Urn. Nanry ffl~ Irmmt

Mrs. Brown served as a volunteer nurse under her maiden name of Nancy

M. Nelson, for eighteen months at West hospital, Baltimore, and about two years at Gratiot Street hospital Prison at St.

Louis. After the war she returned to her home at Ashtabula, Ohio, but

since the death of her husband, who was a veteran of the Civil War, she

resides with her son in Florence Court Washington, D. C. She is 78 years of age and receives a pension of $12.

iltra. &itaan H. Srmutt

Mrs. Brown served under her maiden name, Sue L. McLaughlin, answered a call for volnnteers from Governor Morton of Indiana, serving for nine months on hospital boats on the Mississippi River and in hospitals at Memphis, Tennessee.

She is now the wife of S. C. Brown, Commander of the G. A. R. De- partment of Georgia and South Georgia. She is 74 years of age and re- sides at Fitzgerald, Georgia. She receives a pension.

She with her soldier husband do active work in looking after the veterans in the South, and caring for the graves of the prisoners in Andersonville Cemetery.

iflrii. HI itt. Tiiriaiui.

Mrs. Briggs was enlisted in 1861 by Miss Dorothy Dix. She served in the hospitals at St. Louis until 1862 when the Harvey hospital was es- tablished at Madison, Wisconsin by Mrs. Harvey wife of the Governor of that state who went to the South and brought from the fields and swamps

one hundred and thirty rick and wounded. Mrs. E. O. Gibson was in charge and Mrs. Briggs' daughters wire with her. She remained here until the war closed. Mrs. Briggs is now in her 90th year and is spending her last days in the Old Peoples' Home at Elgin, 111. She says, "I am thank- ful indeed that 1 was permitted to serve inv i ountry.

ittrii. Jlruuir ittathniiiuui fiiiUarf)

Mrs. Bullard enlisted as a volunteer nurse under her maiden name, Miss Jennie Smole. She afterward married a soldier, changing her name to Mathewson. Her term of service was from October, 1861 to May 1865, at Savannah, Georgia; Memphis, Tenness.-,.; Chicago, Illinois and f- arming- ton, Mkoarippi

She served as a volunteer nurse from October, 1861. until May 1862 and from May, 1862, until May, 1865, as a regular. She receives a pen- sion; is sixty-nine years of age and resides at Desha, Arkansas.

Mrs. Sjamtal) Ittxtmt.

Mrs. Irll Inrsr Clark

NO SKETCH FURNISHED.

Miss Bell Vorse served from July 1864 till the close of the war. She was assigned to duty at U. S. General Hospital, No. 3, Nashville, Tenn., July 1864.

After working some time she received, upon the Surgeon's application through James Yeatman, Agent, for Miss L. L. Dix a certificate entitling her to a pension in the Medical Dept. U. S. A. She did not leave her post until the last man was removed from the hospital in April, 1865.

Mrs. Clarke's address is 139 N. 2nd st. Lewisburg, Penn. She served as a volunteer, is 76 years of age. She receives a pension of $12 per month.

ffira. iWrllr (KIontttB

Mrs. Belle Count?, served from March IH(>4 until January IN>) .1* ■

ilin.. Emily 3. (iarlmrmlil

Mi- ( BItwright served undii In i maiden name. Emily J. Avery. She

volunteer nurse. She served ,ii Pulaski. Tennessee and also at Nashville

before and after the battle.

She is 70 years of age and was attached to the 71st Ohio infantry I ler

served ova Iwm peail in ( mi innali. Ohio, in the Fourth Street hospital.

She is 79 years of age. was a volunteer nurse and does not receive a pension.

address is Troy, Ohio. She does not receive a pension

Her residence is at 131 Davis Avenue, Brooklyn, Mass.

ilra. Namttc ffl. (Undjratt

Mrs. Cochran was appointed Matron and head nurse in the Simpson House Hospital, Keokuk, Iowa, and remained in that position from Nov- ember 1863 until October 1854, serving about one year under the direct- ion of Major M. K. Taylor, Surgeon of an Illinois Regiment by whom she was appointed.

Her husband at that time was a clerk attached to the staff of clerks in the main office. They had from six to eight hundred wounded.

Mrs. Cochran's address is 19 Eleventh St., Troy, N. Y. She is 67 years of age and receives a pension.

Mrs. QJlanasa (UroBaan

Mrs. Croasman served under her maiden name, Miss Clarissa Watters,

f»r two years at Keokuk, Iowa. Her address is 2434 Wentworth Ave.,

Chicago, Illinois.

She is 72 years of age and receives a pension of $12 per month.

fflrs. Amur |!rtar*Ua truitm

(Cflla /-rl.r)

Mrs. Erving was a volunteer nurse commissioned by Governor Curlm. She was stationed at Camp ( urtin and all through the sad days of 1861 and 1862 she was a faithful nurse heloved by all whom she attended.

She served at Gettysburg and cared for many of the wounded. While a nurse at Camp Curtin, she and three other girls gave a picnic on Inde- pendence Island, to raise money for lint for the wounded soldiers, they realized $125.

This is a cheery lady aged 70 years. I \rt address is 218 Dubois St., Newburg, N. Y. She receives a peision by Special Act of Congress.

ittrri. diary 9atu 3to*

Mrs. Fox served for six months as a volunteer nursr, being engaged at Annapolis. Maryland. Hilton I lead. South Carolina and Daufuskie Island.

She is 70 years of age and resides at 104 S. 4th St.. Camden, New

Jersey.

Mrs. Fox is engaged in business. She receives a pension of $12 per month.

Mr*. ftrbma IE. iFrtrk

Mrs. Friclc served for two years and six months at Washington, D. C, Annapolis, Maryland, Winchester, City Point and Hampton Roads, Virginia, as a regular nurse.

She is now in her 87th year. Still active and with a mind as bright as when she was doing her work among the sick and wounded of whom she has a hearty recollection.

She resides at West Conshohocken, Philadelphia, (The Hermitage), and

iHrs. ElUabrtlj 3C. 3Fritrip>r

Mrs. Fritcher served under her maiden name, Elizabeth L. McQueen,

from July 9th 1862 until June 4th 1863 at Baptist Church Hospital,

Alexandria, Virginia.

She resides at 255 W. Main St., Amsterdam, N. Y. Mrs. Fritcher is

receives a pension.

74 years of age. She was a volunteer nurse and receives a pension.

MtB. ittarii K. Bmtglafl

i-Hrii. *?;irah 3). Diuuaa

Mrs. Dumas. then Miss Sarah J. Steady, went to Washington, D. C to

offer her services to nurse the soldiers, and was accepted and assigned to

NO SKETCH FURNISHED.

Sherburn Barrack Post Hospital, February 14th 1865, serving until

December 1865, when her services being no longer needed she returned to

her home in Vermont. She is - years of age and receives a pension.

Mvb. Harta <§. iEltircb.

iHrs. tEmiltT Hmrr

Mrs. Eldred volunteered under her maiden name, Maria Olmstead, and Mrs. Emily Elmer, then Mrs. Emily Orederdouk, was during her service

served over nine months at Fall Church, Va.

of over a year agent of Miss L. D. Dix, superintendent. She was engaged

Date of service and by whom enlisted not given.

at Webster Block Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. until Lee's surrender then in

Mrs. Eldred is sixty-eight years old and resides at Canton St., Lawrence

Co., N. Y.

Citizens Military Hospital, Burlington, Iowa. She was commissioned by James E. Yeatman of Western Sanatary Commission. Mrs. Elmer resides

at Hersey, Osceola Co., Michigan and is 69 years of age. She receives a

She receives a pension of $12 per month.

pension. The name under which she served was Emily Rowell.

ittrii. 3? a rah S. (BrOBB

Mrs. Cross entered the service as a volunteer nurse in December IfVii and continued one year and ei^ht months serving in Lincoln General Hospital, Washington, D. C. Her present address is 408 N. Mantua. St., Kent, Ohio. She is 70 years of age and receives a pension o( $12 per month.

Mrs. Cross was born in England and came to America, where her hus- band had preceded her and became engaged in the service of the United States. He sent for his wife and son and Mrs. Cross volunteered as nurse in a Lincoln General Hospital. Thus for nearly two years husband and wife labored side by side, she caring for the wounded of her adopted country.

Mrs. 5Fraurrii D. Dauirls

Mrs. Daniels was a volunteer nurse and served at Vicksburg, Mississippi,

m hospitals number two and three. Time of service and by whom enlisted

not given.

She is 67 years of age and receives a pension.

Mrs. Eittlt iaufortl)

Mrs. Danforth entered the service of the United States through George H. Staurt, Chairman of the United States Christian Commission in Phila- delphia, July 1864. She was sent from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, where she was assigned to Toffen Field Hospital. At the close of this hospital, about September, she was transferred to Brown General Hospital in Louisville where she continued until the close of the hospital in May 1865.

Mrs. Danforth served about 1 I months as a volunteer. Her address is R. D. No. 1 , Box 38, Ontario, California. She is 85 years of age, and receives a pension of $12 per month.

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mini. iFrattrrs A. Utetfrnbarljer

Mrs. Dieffenbacher, on April 28, 1863 volunteered as a nurse in re- sponse to a call from Gov. O. P. Morton of Indianna, who furnished her with a pass to Nashville, Tennessee. From there she went to Murphis- boro, Tennessee where she nursed the sick and wounded soldiers. When the 85th regiment returned to Nashville, Mrs. Dieffenbacher was detailed by the Surgeon as regimental nurse, and served as such for five months. She also served in the Convalescent Camp at Brentwood, Tennessee, re- turning to Indianapolis the last of August 1863.

She is 75 years of age and resides at Havanah, Illinois. Being a volunteer nurse she receives no pension.

iflrii. iWaru ifrijrr 0">arimrr

Mrs. Gardner, Colonel. Amos A. McKnight, with Misses Scott, Guffey and Allen, served with the One 1 iundredth Pennsylvania during the winter and spring of 1861 —62 at Clamp Jameson, Va There being loo many sick for one hospital to accomodate Mi<> I i\>t and Miss Allen served to- gether and escaped being quarantined twice with smallpox as Miss Duffey and Miss Scott were.

Mrs. Gardner is sixty-four years of age, is the widow of a veteran of the Civil War and receives a pension by Special Act of Congress.

She reside* at 1 305 Pike St., Philadelphia. Pa.

ittrii. tltEiilirlh (grasfl

Mrs. Grass served over two year-, at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., and at Joe Holt, Ind. She was a regular nurse serving under Dr. Russell, in charge at Benton Barracks and McClung at Jeffersonville, Ind. Date of service not given.

Mrs. Grass is over 68 years of age and receives a pension of $20 per month. She resides at South Fargo, North Dakota, and is department President of North and South Dakota.

ilra. Ann lE. (SriMrit

Mrs. Ann Eliza Gridley, who died at the home of her son, Mr. Lucius E. Gridley, needs more than a passing notice as she was the mother of two sons, one of whom, the gallant sailor captain, Charles V. Gridley, who died at Manilla Bay after winning the battle there. He served under Farragut at Mobile ; then his only son, and Mrs. Gridley's only grandson, Lieutenant John V. Gridley was killed by an explosion on his ship at Hampton Roads.

Mrs. Gridley served as a volunteer nurse with the Potomac Army until her strength gave away. She was stricken with spotted fever at the close of the war. After her recovery she was appointed to a clerkship in the Patent Office at Washington, serving faithfully for thirty years, retiring only a few months before her death, October 22, 1909.

She was one of the first members of the National Nurses Association and one of her last regrets was that she could not meet it at Salt Lake City. One of her last duties was to pay her dues for 1910. Mrs. Gridley was 84 years of age.

Mvb. Annex Ifaljn

Mrs. Hahn served over three months at the 4thNear Morgan street hos-

pital, St. Louis, Mo. Dates when service was given not furnished.

She was a volunteer nurse and is not receiving any pension. She is 75

years of age. Mrs. Hahn resides at 2129 South 34th Street, Omaha,

Nebraska.

iWuiii (£nnu'lui ifruirnrk

Miss Hancock served as a voluntas DUIM From July »>lh IHtii to May 2*rd ltt<>5 in the Second Corps Army of the Pol >mac. caring lor the and wounded during dial penod.

At Gettysburg. Miss Hancock remained in the held hospital until the establishment of Camp Lettarman, where she worked foi atew weeks longer, the soldiers of the Third Division voting her a silvor medal as an expression of their appreciation of her

She is over 70 years of age and still actively engaged in business. She receives a pension of $12 per month. Her address is 120 N. I(>th St.. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jllrs. (fnsurlui tharntmtnu

\li- I larrington wenl to the front with her husband in December 18 — and remained until April IH . She served most of her time in Nashville and Chattanoga where she nursed the wounded in the R. R. Depot which wh turned into ,> hospital. She also nursed at Bowling Creen. Kentucky, and Nashville. Tnn rving about five months.

She was a volunteer nurse and receives a pension. Mrs. Harrington is 78 years of age and resides at Dexter, Michigan.

iHrs. iMarilm 3. Ijaitiint

Mrs. Hayden volunteered as a nurse under her maiden name Martha

Strahan and served for three months in Washington, D. C. in the regim-

ental Hospital of the First Regiment of Rhode Island Infantry. Time of

service not given.

iKrs. jfflargarrt ijagus

Under the name of Maggie Meserolle she served for two years and six months at Adams General Hospital No. 2 and Gayoso Hospital, Memphis Tennessee as a regular nurse.

She is nearly blind, but continues to take an active part in the Relief Corps of which she is now a member, thereby still working for the soldiers.

Mrs. Hayden is in the 69th year of her age and receives no pension. Her address is 1200 E. 43rd Street, Los. Angeles, California.

She resides at 140 Blue Hill Ave., Roxbury, Massachussetts.

She is 76 years of age and receives no pension.

ittni. jlulta A. ifiibluirit.

Mrs. Julia A. Hibbard crved from September 1st. 1861 until .April 29th 1864, on a Floating Hospital tarrying wounded after the battle of Shiloh.

She also served in Memphis hospital. Tennessee, and in Paducah hos- pital, Kentucky.

Mrs. Hibbard was in the service ol the United States over two years. She resides at 1301 Glendale avenue. Peoria, 111. and is 77 years of age. She receives a pension of $12 per month.

ittni. iCamrtta ft. iiniuiimtfmt

Her maiden name under which she lerved, "as Lauretta H. Cutler and her service was 13 months in the years IC64 and 1865 at U. S. Hospitals Nos. I and 2 at Chattanooga, Tenn.

She was accepted as a nurse by Miss Dorothy Dix in 1864.

Mrs. Hoisington is 84 years of age an J resides at Palo Alto. California She receives a pension.

Htni. BiEabrtlj $i. ?Jfmtt

Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, as Elizabeth Pickard, served three months at Keokuk, Iowa.

She was regularly employed by Dr. Hughes, the Surgeon in charge. The work was very hard and she contracted smallpox and was removed from the hospital.

Her husband is in his eighty-second year. Her address is 610 North Anderson street, Tacoma, Washington.

Mrs. IFattmr (0 3arkaon

Mrs. Jackson served about 1 5 months as Miss Fannie Oslin, her maiden

name, in Field Hospitals viz; Department of the Cumberland, at Reseca,

Big Shanty, Centerville, Vinings Station and Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

She was a regular nurse and receives a pension. She is 75 years of age

She is 76 years of age. She does not receive a pension.

and resides at 3 1 8 North Chestnut street, Olathe, Kansas.

Miss Lydia S. Johnson served from September 1862 until Julv lrW>'>. Her work was in Georgetown. D <■ . Al< \.m<lru. \ irginia, ( hesapeakc General Hospital and Old Point C 'omloil. \ irginia.

Mtb. iCiiru £. LKaii'irr

M . kaiser was Lucy L. Camphell during the war. She serve I I

years with tlie Sanitary Commission in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and on

She was one of the nursa who, under Miss Dorothv Dix, passed through Hospital Steamers.

the epidemic of smallpox from 186} to I8b5.

She is 80 years of age and resides in Lvndonville. New York. She re-

I ler address is Leland, Leland Co., Michigan.

cetves a pension.

She is B4 years of age and receives a pension.

JHrs. iEmrltttc 0. u>cmmj SCmgatmnj

Miss Emeline D. Tenney was a volunteer nurse, enlisting under Colonel

Cushman of the 53rd Illinois Infantry and served with that regiment in the

Lincoln Hospital until the end of the war, when she resigned, but her

resignation was not accepted until the Army was disbanded. She was in

Washington when President Lincoln was assassinated.

She served 15 months. Mrs. Kingsbury's address is Hamilton, Texas.

ifltrs. &arali A. JUttmmer ICrmntntt

As Sarah A. Plummer, she entered the service at Bellrose and City Hospitals in New York City, being a member of Rose Hill Association Auxiliary to the National Christian Commission, Dr. Henry W. Bellows, President. She was a volunteer, giving all her time before and after school as student and teacher, also Sundays and vacations. Her husband was a life long invalid from starvation and exposure in Andersonville and Florence prison pens.

Mrs. Lemmon resides at 5985 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, California. She is 74 years of age and receives no pension.

Mrs. Uruuir t. ittaish

Miss Jennie Gauslin. now Mi M u-li. was living in her father's house at Winchester, Va., during the civil war which, from 1861 to 1863, was turned into a hospital and kepi up by her father's and her own means, and where she nursed the sick and wounded Union prisoners left at Winchester. After General Milroy's defeat she was sent as a prisoner by Confederate Authority and confined in the Confederate prison at Richmond, known as Castle Thunder, with other loyal ladies.

She married Mr. Lewis Maish a Union soldier during the war. She is 64 years of age and resides at Stillwater, Minnesota. She receives no pension.

iflrii. ittani C itiamuut

Mrs. Mary L. Mannon responded with three other ladies to a call for nurses from Governor Morion of Indiana, leaving Goshen, Indiana in February 1863 and served in the hospital at Memphis, Tennessee until June 4. 1865

She was a volunteer nurse but receives a pension. Mrs. Mannon was born in 1843 and resides ct Los Angeles, Cal.

Mrs. Joanna fUrltmt

iHtiui £»iuian iEUnt Marsh

Mrs. Melton was in the service of the United States from 1861 to 1864. Miss Marsh served 19 months at Armory Square Hospital, Washington,

She was employed as a volunteer nurse at Camp Carnngton, Lafayette,

D. C, as a volunteer. Her address is 73 Mulgrave Street, Liverpool,

Indiana, and at Louisville, Kentucky.

England. She receives a pension.

Though living on another continent, she keeps in close touch with the

She resides at 947 South 7th St. Salt Lake City. Utah. She is 75

Association of Army Nurses, and writes beautiful letters to members of the

years of age and does not receive a pension.

Association. She is 72 years of age.

Mrs. ittaiij S. iflaxtidit

Mrs. Maxficld led I'.-ona. Him mbei II. 1663, with the Sixth

llli. ic is Cavalry, whu li wrni to Springfield, Illinois, and from there i<> Padccan, Kentucky and then to Memphis, Ten -\w was |

li Mid to the Adams Block I lospital.

She served under her maiden name. Mi- \!ars Kenny 1 r .r twenty-two mont'is and was commissioned by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore Mr- Max- field is 70 years ol age and receives a pension. She resides at Kansas ( ilv. Kansas, and is the Department President ol the National Association "I \i rses of the Civil Wai "1 Kansas.

ilim. Eutrirr iitaxiurll

NO SKETCH II RMSIIED

lUrs. §>iusmt (fiarrtr iHilla

ifltiss A&altu* E. iHillrr

Mrs. Mills served for three months under her maiden name, Miss Carrie Miss Miller served 4 years at Cairo, Paduca, Kentucky and Millican's

Robinson, going to the front from Concord, New Hampshire, in May 1861,

under Dr. Crossby, and after passing her examination was enrolled by Miss Bend, Nashville Tennessee.

Dix at Washington, D. C. She served for three months at Point of Rocks

and Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.

Her address is 1404 Arrapahoe St., Los Angeles, California. She has

Mrs. Mills is seventy years of age and resides at 33 White St., Haver-

hill, Massachusetts. She does not receive a pension.

reached the advanced age of 83 years. She receives a pension.

iiirn. Aaria ittillrr fttrs. Srua '€. ftittrr

She lerved for almost two years as a volunteer nurse under her maiden Al Hena I.. Miner she server! for 18 months at Jeflersonville General

name, Maria I lop|>e, in Cincinnati, Ohio ; Genr^r Street and FJin Street

Hospitals.

I lotpital, Jeflersonville, Indiana and at Jeflerson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo.

f ler residence is at Milan, Indiana. She is 6} years of age and does

She was a regular nurse and receives a pension.

not receive a pension.

She is Department President of the National Association for Michigan.

Mr. Matxibii E. Mania

Mrs. 3attr M. Minhm

Mrs. Morris was first employed by Dr. D. W. Bliss and served at Armory Square Hospital one year and was then transferred to Findley Hospital in charge of Dr. Pancoast. She was there several months after which she got an honorable discharge and enlisted with Miss Dorothy Dix who sent her to Sandy Hook Hospital. As there was not much to do, the Surgeon in charge. Dr. Boon secured transportation for her to go to Winchester, West Virginia, where she helped nurse the wounded after Sheridan's great battle and victory in 1863.

After caring for the wounded for several days, Mrs. Morris was sent on a hospital train with them to more comfortable hospitals in Baltimore. She then went back to Findley Hospital getting a final discharge January 31, 1865, having served three years.

Mrs. Morris is 75 years of age and receives a pension. Her residence is 1372 W. 74th Place, Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. Morton served as a volunteer nurse in the Prison Hospital at

Nashville, Tennessee, being enlisted by Dr. Hickman, Surgeon in charge.

She served one year under her maiden name, from July 1863 until the

hospital was closed in 1864. Mrs. Morton is 69 years of age and receives

a pension. Her address is 108 Plum St., Elgin, Illinois.

JErfi. ittullir <£. Hinlt.

Mrs. Mott served as a volunteer nurse under hei maiden name. Mi

Mollie Carnahan. She nursed foi two years in the hospitals at Nashville

and Galatin, Tennessee.

She is teventy-eighl yean of age and receivei a pension.

Her address is 39 I '2 South Main. St.. Llkhardt, Indiana.

£HrB. Caura A. Nrmmati

Miss Laura Mount served (or three years with the Potomac Army as a volunteer nurse, (rom 1862 to 1865. — with her husband's regiment, the Sixth Maryland. She wai at Culpeppa Court House, Lee's Mills, burg, Virginia; the Conacnpl Camp at New Haven. Connecticut. Todd's Barracks, Ohio (or two months. I la regiment being constantly marching and fighting.

Mis. Newman is sixty-fix years of age and does not receive a pension, i Idress is Lafayette, Indiana.

fUrs. tEltsahrth Ntrfrola

Mrs. Efbfrra ICnmnmt (Olrr.mt

Mrs. Nichols went to Chicago in 1861 to nurse her husband who was sick in the hospital. He belonged to the 1 1 1th New York Infantry. She was there enrolled as a nurse by Dr. Wm. Vosbery, Surgeon in charge. She went to the front with the I 1 1th, her husband being detailed to assist her. She was at Gettysburg and wherever the regiment was engaged, battling faithfully with wounds, smallpox, diphtheria and fevers until she was discharged, together with her husband.

Mrs. Nichols resides at Clyde, Wayne Co., New York. She is 75 of age and receives no pension. She served at Centerville, Virginia, in Brigade Hospital, from October 17, 1862 until March 1863.

Mrs. Oleson served as a volunteer nurse under her maiden name. Miss

Rebecca Lemmon. from November 1, 1862 until March 3, 1865, at

Nashville and Look Out Mountain, Tennessee.

Mrs. Oleson is past 86 years of age and receives a pension.

She resides at Sierraville, California.

iWn-.. Erbrrra C^tia

Mrs. Rebecca Otis, whose husband was at Jefferson Barracks. St. Louis, Mo., scntfot his wife and child to usit him. She tame and nod ing the great need (or help, joined with the olher» and rendered such efficient aid that, instead of going hack to her home when the term of her visit expired she remained as a nurse under the earnest solicitation of Dr. Allen, surgeon in charge.

Her kind and gentle care soon gained the confidence of the sick and wounded and with her consent thay called her "mothet.

She had formed her plans to return home on account of her health and to place her boy in school, when she was overtaken by a great sorrow. Her child, at play, was jumping from one log to another when he slipped and fell, the log rolling over him killing him instantly. She returned after a short time and continued her labor of love until the close of the war. Mrs. Otis is 85 years of age. She resides at Manchester. Iowa. She receives a pension.

ilini. $arrpta CI". Patterson

She served undei ha maiden name. Sarepla C. McNall. She worked one year in I. S. Hospital Division No. I, Annapolis, and three years at volunteer work, serving 4 vears in all. She resides at Grand Junction. Colorado.

Mrs. Patterson is 75 years of age and receives a pension.

ifflni. iEmaline piiUtya

ifflra. (£arric WxikhiB JJnUarft

As Miss Emaline Tibbett, she served 1 16 days in the Warren, Regim- The name under which she served was Carrie Wilkins-.^She was en-

gaged not quite two years attached to Field Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky ;

ental Hospital, Washington, D. C.

Look Out Mountain Tennessee, and lastly Floating Hospital, Nashville,

New Albany, Indiana. Was there until the close of the war. She was She was a volunteer nurse ; is 70 years of age. She does not receive a sent out by U. S. Christian Commission under Miss Annie Wittenmeyer.

She is 67 years of age and receives a pension. Mrs. Pollard resides at

pension.

Maxwell, Colusa Co., California.

ii\vi\. ittani iB. ilnUurk

Mrs. Mary B. Pollock served in the Army ol the Potomac al I lilton Head, Beaufort. S. C and othei places. She was a volunteer and served for two v

Her address is San Luis. Obispo, C.al.

Mrs. Pollock is 74 years ol age and receives a pension of $12 [>ei

ittni. JHaltnfta A. Pratt

Mrs. Pratt served under her maiden name Malmda A. Miller, served

7 months at Albany, Indiana, ai ■ rolunteei nur<e.

1 l.i addreM il 11)6 0 Street. Lincoln. Nebraska.

ith.

\li Pratt is 73 years of age and receiva ■ pennon.

iMrs. £. Jrtrr

Mrs. Price served under her maiden name Rebecca L. Pennypacker, for some months as a volunteer nurse. She was at Wind Mill Point Hospital, Va., Gettysburg, and Chambersburg, Pa. and at Fortress Monroe. Her visits to the hospitals were necessarily short. She did emergency work whenever there was need and left when her work was done. She had a pass from Governor Curtin and at one time took to the soldiers a large con- signment of books and other goods from her native town, Phoenixville. She is 72 years of age and resides at 1 18 Mulberry Street, Lancaster, Pa. She receives a pension.

Mrs. ifltarta 3C. ffiathmrll

Mrs. Maria L. Rathmell served under her maiden name Miss Maria L.

Moore as a contract nurse for a few days over one year. She was engaged

at Camp Dennison, Ohio, in the Ninth Division of U. S. Hospital during

the winter and spring of 1863, when all matrons were relieved of duty. She

was reinstated in March 1865 and served until September 1865. She ceived pay as a contract nurse and now receives a pension. She was sent out by the Soldiers Aid Society of Bellefontaine and was under Dr. McDermot, Surgeon in charge. Mrs. Rathmell is 75 years of age and re- sides at 704 Madriver Street, Bellefontaine, Ohio.

H\n\. &arat| JR. Rrabing

Mrs. Reading served one vear as a volunteer i i over a year in

the U. S. General Hospital at Davenport. Iowa.

Mrs. Reading is 69 years of age and is pensioned at twelve dollars a month. She resides at Lowrv City, Mtttouri.

Hi it.. Hiarii A. iKirlumV.um

Mrs. Richardson, then \Ii- \l.u\ \ Ransom, «'-.il to the hospital at Albany, N V to help \l.n\ < are) and Di. Armsby where she was en- listed as a nurse by Dr. Amaby, June 2. lrV>2 and served there six months. From there she went to Fredericlu C ity, Maryland, where she remained for six months, going there at the request ol Dr. L. I I I felsby. Surgeon in charge.

Mrs. Richardson has many letters from the boys she nursed expressing their gratitude to her. some saying "You saved my life.

She was a regular nurse and was discharged by Gideon Bants, Agent for the Christian Commission and Maryland Relief Association. February 21, 1865. She is 75 years of age and resides with her husband at the Soldier'* I lome, \ belaud, N. J.

ifflrs. AKrr Ularu IRtslnt

Miss Alice C. Farmer with her mother, Mrs. Phoebe Farmer, after in- numerable hardships reached New Orleans and commenced the work of caring for the sick in Marine University, St. James and St. Louis Hospitals.

Mrs. Farmer's husband refused to vote for secession and was oblidged, in the spring of 1862, to seek safety in New Orleans, after which his family received no mail. Mrs. Farmer being charged with being a spy.

Dick Taylor and his men threatened to hang her. One dark night the helpless woman and her daughter left their beautiful home and were taken aboard a steamer and locked in a stateroom by the friendly captain. Eventually they were landed at Braspear City. Her term of service was from August 1862 to September 1865. She is 65 years of age. Mrs. Risley receives no pension.

Utrfi. lEltsabrlh Amutsta fittgatll

Mrs. Russell served as a volunteer nurse for over four years under the

New England Association.

Her work was done in New York City Hospitals. She is 77 years of age

and is pensioned by Special Act of Congress.

Her home is in Minneapolis but she spends part of each year at her

country home, Maine, Florida. Those of the Association who were at

Minneapolis in 1906 will remember her gracious efforts for their comfort.

iflrs. Emma A. &arkrtl

Mrs. Sackett served under her maiden name, Emma A I rench. She was employed as regular nurse at U. S. General I inspital "Jelierv>n. Jelfersonville, Indiana. She i^ <>H years of age and > pension.

Her address is Winterset, Iowa. Time ol service seven months and twenty-three days.

Mrs. Aim ittaria U». *rhram.

\1r< Schram served as a volunteer. Her husband was one of the first young men of Amsterdam to respond to the call for volunteers.. His young wife was eager to do something for her country, and the citizens of Amster- dam assisted her to get to the front. She reported at Fredericksburg and was assigned by Drs. McKenzie and Haynes to duty in Camp outside of Fredericksburg among the sick and wounded brought thither from South Mountain and Antietam. She served for 10 months until her health was impaired by the exposure and hard work and she was obliged to leave the service. She received no pay for her services not even her board being provided. Mrs. Schram is 76 years of age. She is Department President of the Association of Army Nurses. She resides at 386 First St.. Albany. N Y.. and receives a pension by Special Act of Congress.

Mia. iWarij E. ^mitlj

As Mary E. Webber she served from the Fall of 1862 until July 1865.

She was engaged in the Jarvis United States General Hospital, Baltimore,

Maryland.

Her present address is I 16 Congress Street, Lowell, Mass.

Mrs. Smith is 67 years of age and does not receive a pension.

iHns. Amanita $. ^>mi|ttf

Mrs. Amanda B. Smyth served about seven months. Her husband had enlisted and when she heard that he was sick in a hospital in New Albany Indinna, she went to him with her child who was one year old. There being over 300 sick and wounded soldiers she assisted in caring for as many as she could.

She remained in the hospital until her husband recovered. He is still an

invalid suffering from the effects of a wound received at the battle of

Chickamauga. Mrs. Smyth resides at Carrollton, Ohio. She is 70 years of age and receives a pension of $12 a month.

Mrs. Smyth is Department President of the Association of Army Nurses for Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

ii\n\. $\uuli 51. &pragxu

Mrs. Sprague served under her maiden name, Sarah J. Milhkrn.

She enlisted under Miss D<>u>lliy Dix, serving liom September 1862

until March 1864, having been employed in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Sprague resides at Wells' Plate, Lynn, Massachussetts. She is 81 years ol age and receives a pension.

iUiT.. tlinuiu p. fbptnttt

\li- Spenoel went to the tuml with her husband, who was Surgeon of the 1 47th New York Infantry.

The purveying steamer Planter was placed at her disposal and she was ready for every battle in which the Potomac Army was e.igaged, being one ol the first to rrai h Gettysburg where shei mained lot several weeks. She cared for General Sickles after his limb was amputated.

She was selected bj the State "I New ^ <>rk as one of the four of its heroines whose statues are placed in marble on the Grand Stair Case of the Capitol at Albany.

Mrs. Spencer was wounded by a spent ball at City Point injuring the sciatic nerve and crippling her for life. She is 91 years of age and resides at Oswego. New York.

iHrfi. Susannah &pr<uutr.

Mrs. UlmttHta M. &taitUu

Mrs. Sprague served at Fort Scott and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, dur- Mrs. Stanley served under her maiden name, Miss Cornelia M. Tomp-

ing the two years she was employed.

kins. Her home at that time being at Niagara Falls, N. Y. She was enlisted by James E. Yeatman, agent (or Miss Dix, and received a com- mission from the latter. She served for two years and one month at

Her address is 2353 Cleveland Place, Denver, Colorado. She was a Memphis, Tennessee. Benton and Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri.

Mrs. Stanley's present residence is Gardena, Cal., Box 10 R. D. She

volunteer nurse and receives no pension.

is 72 years of

years ot age.

iflrs. iflaru t. £tflliar1

Mtv Stewart i husband, I)r I | I i* appointed by the G'

nor o( Ohio, Surgeon to the Madison. Indiana Hospital and i iti/ens 01 her home town requested her to ^o to the hospital promising that they would send supplies tor it direct to her. She went, hearing her own expense, and caring for the sick and wounded, doing well all that was put in her hands to do hy Colonel Grant, in command at that place \li- Stewart served Seven months as a volunteer nurse hut receives no pension. She resides at South C ollege Street, .Athens. Ohio.

ilin.. iliaru (§. Srirunui

Mrs. Stevens served under her maiden name, Miss Mary O. Townsend, lor 5 months at Seminary Hospital. Georgetown, Armory Square, and Columhia General Hospital. Washington, D. C. Her address is 56 HoitOD Street. Peahody. Massachusetts. Mrs. Stevens does not recrive a |>ension. She is 6ft years ol age.

Hira. Sophia f$trphrnsmt

Names under which she served. Dr. Colham and Dr. B. F. Stephenson.

Length of service, 1861 to 1865.

Her field of labor was in Toledo, Ohio; Springfield, Illinois, and Nash-

ville, Tennessee.

Mrs. Stephenson is 72 years of age. Her address is Winterset, Iowa.

She never received any pension.

Mrs. Amur l\vi\ ^tttbbs

Mrs. Stubbs served for one year as a volunteer nurse, then became a regular nurse for the remainder of her term of service of over three years. The field of her labor embraced Harpers Ferry, Acquia Creek, 12th Corps Hospital, after Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Nashville.

Her present address is Merion, Pa. She is 7 1 years of age; she receives a pension.

On account of her youth Miss Dix refused to enroll her as a nurse but after she had served a short time she received from Miss Dix the highest testimonials.

Dr. Uriita itt. &urarta

Dr. Vesta M. Swarts. early in July 1864, went to the South expecting to join her husband who was Assistant Surgeon o( the 100th Indiana Volunteers. Reaching Indianapolis and finding communications were cut off. Governor Morton suggested that she should report in person to the Christian Commission Agency at Louisville. Kentucky. She began work under Annie Wittenmeyer at Brown U. S. Hospitals, afterwards being transferred to Crittenden 0. S. General Hospital at Louisville till March 1865.

Dr. Swarts resides at 210 N. Main St., Auburn. Indiana. She is 69 years of age and was a regular nurse. She receives a pension of $ I 2 per month.

ittrii. (IhaiUittr ittanuut aluurq.iimu

Mis. Thompson served I year in the L S. General Hospital. GeisLoro. Maryland, near Washington. D. C.

She was a volunteer for a short time, then Ix-came a regular nurse and

pay.

Mrs. Thompson is 71 years of age and resides at Brodhead. W

isconsm.

Sh

e receives a pension.

iitrs. Paislinr (Etiumpguiu

Mrs. Thompson was assigned to duty in the General Hospital at Lex- ington, Kentucky, by James E. Yeatman, agent for Miss Dix, at the office of the U. S. Sanitary Commission at St. Louis, Missouri, May 3, 1863.

In the spring of 1 865 she was again employed in the General Hospital at Camp Nelson by Surgeon Lloyd, and served under him and Dr. Mitchell, six months, but through Dr. Mitchell's neglect did not receive any pay for the last period, which he failed to draw and forward to her.

Mrs. Thompson's record of service in 1 865 were destroyed by a fire at her home January 22, 1885. Mrs. Thompson resides at Berwyn, Illinois.

ittins iEHza IC. cimmtsmfi

Miss Townsend served as a volunteer nurse for I 1 months, date of

service not given. She served in hospitals at Baton Rogue, Louisiana.

She is 78 years old and receives a pension. Miss Townsend's address

is 1277 East Davis Street, Portland, Oregon.

ittrg. Caura R. ansim

Mrs. Tyson enlisted as a nurse in September 1862 and served until the close of the war in the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Philadelphia, under her maiden name, Miss Laura K. Cotton. Her first work was to help care for three hundred wounded from the battle ol Anbetam. She answered a call for volunteers sent out from the hospital. The wounded had received no attention until they arrived three days after the battle, but under the intelligent supervision of Dr. R. S. Kenradinr' wen- soon made as comfort- able as their condition allowed

"Miss Laura" as the "boys" called her, remained until the close of the war when she married Mr. George Ivson and was absent from her work for one month. Mrs. Tyson is 75 years of age and receives no pension. Her residence is 97 Garfield St.. Chelsea. Mass.

iflni. $usan ItUuiuuk

As Susan Mercer she served nearly six mor.ths as a volunteer, at Murfreesboro Tennessee, Hospital No. I. Dr. McColloch, Surgeon in charge.

Mrs. Warnock's address is Lockmgton, Shelby Co., Ohio. She is 70

years of age, and does not receive a pension

ifflrs. £uiita 3C. JBljitrman

Mrs. Whiteman served from the time the first gun was fired until August 30, 1865, first, in Organization Relief Association in Philadelphia and nursed those who were left at the Cooper Shop Hospital.

She also was engaged as sick nurse in Camp at Georgetown Hospital and at Yorktown. From there she went to Warren Barracks under Cap- tain Manton.

After the battle of the Wilderness, Mrs. Whiteman found a man, left for dead at the foot of a tree, and against the protest of the men in the am- bulance had him taken to the hospital, where she nursed him. That man was Colonel Baxter. He says she saved his life.

Mrs. Whiteman served under Miss Dix most of the time. She is 84 years of age, resides at 1332 Brown St., Philadelphia, Pa., and receives no pension.

iMra- (Egtttijta BUittr

Mrs. White served under her maiden name, Cynthia Elbin, at the

Soldiers Hospital, called "Camp McClellan," and at Davenport, Iowa, for

eight and one half months, as a volunteer. She is 66 years of age and re-

ceives a pension. Her address is Lowry City, Missouri.

ittrs. EUrta BHUard

Mrs. Willard served as a volunteer nurse from 1861 to close of the war. Her husband Luther B. Willard, at the beginning of the war was appointed as agent to supply medical supplies to the soldiers and render other aid. He represented private citizens who were contributing money for the wel- fare of the Union soldiers. Mrs. Willard went with him to the front.

Mrs. Willard served at the hospitals in Nashville, Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Much of her time was spent in distribut- ing sanitary supplies and nursing the sick and wounded in St. Mary's Harper Hospitals and the barracks at Detroit. Michigan.

Mrs. Willard resides at 487 Merrich Avenue, Detroit. She is 82 years of age and receives a pension.

ittni. iiiaru t£lrauur Willsim

Mrs. Willson volunteered as a nurse in 1862 and served three months. She was then regularly commissioned by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, acting for Miss Dix, at Chicago, in February 1863.

Her service covered a period of almost two years with the Army of the

Cumberland on the field, in Post Hospitals, Adam's Block Hospital,

Memphis, Tenn., and on hospital boats on the Mississippi River. Age

not given.

Mrs. Willson resides at Westgate. California, or 622 North I Oth St. Sawtelle, Cal. You will see she gives both addresses.

iHrs. ICcmuna Urutfrt

Mrs. ICury A. thuttm

Mrs. Wright served under her maiden name, Leonora Smith. Her field As Lucy A. Newton she served 7 months, at Camp Baxter, St. Johns-

of labor was in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Nashville, and Memphis Ten-

burg Vermont with the 3rd Vol. Regiment, also at Camp Lyon, Camp

nessee. She was commissioned by Governor O. P. Morion.

Advance, and Camp Griffin as a volunteer.

Sh

e receives a pension.

Mrs. Wright is 79 years of age. She receives a pension. Her address

Mrs. Young s address is St. Johnsburg, Vermont. She is 68 years of

is 467 W. 3rd St., Terre Haute, Ind.

age.

ittiii. Emily Aliirr

Mrs. Alder had two brothers in the Union Army, one of whom died at the close of four years' service. Her husband, Henry Alder, enlisted in the 1 3th Wisconsin Volunteers and in 1863 she followed him to the front as a nurse.

After six months hard service at Paducah and Fort Donaldson, Mrs. Alder was stricken with a serious illness on the Fort Donaldson battlefield. Her regiment was under marching orders, but the Colonel gave her husband four days leave as the Surgeon said it would be all over in that time, but as she says, "God spared my life lo take a disabled husband."

After her illness she was oblidged lo return home. She was a volunteer nurse and received r.o pension or pay. Mrs. Alder resides at C lanon, Iowa and is seventy years of age.

ittiiiii MoBBit Ruby

Daughter ol Mary E. Lacy, President, who by her many acts of loving and unselfish care for the Nurses of the Civil War had so endeared them to her that at their convention at Sa!t Lake City in 1909 she was adopted as the daughter of the National Association of Army Nurses and presented with iti Offuial Badge.

iflrs. (Catliarinr <&. iSimgleHB

Dr. Nattnj iW. iiU

Mrs. Bengless volunteered as a nurse in April 1862 and served until December 24th, a period of nine months, under her maiden name. Miss Hattie Griffith in the hospital at Broad and Cherry Stseets, the first hospital established in Philadelphia.

She was chosen by Dr. Neil, Surgeon in charge and Miss Peterson, Matron, to assist Mrs. Gulespie who had charge of the first ward. Miss Griffith at the close of her service married Rev. J. D. Bengless of Paw- tucket, R. I. About one hundred convalescent, sick and wounded soldiers attended the ceremony which took place in the Baptist Church just across the street from the hospital.

Mrs. Bengless is 74 years of age and resides at 24 Cliff St., Ansonia. Connecticut. She does not receive a pension.

Htm. #>arah (£. ICrrlfHtmt

Mrs. Eccleston volunteered as a nurse under her maiden name, Miss Sallie E. C. Chamberlin, and served twelve months in Nashville, Ten- nessee, in hospitals one and eight.

After the war she married but took up Kindergarten teaching which she practiced successfully in her own country until 1868 when she was called to the Argentine Republic of South America to found its first Kinder- garten and training school in the Government College at Parana, later being transferred to Buenos Aires where she taught until retired on a pension from the Government of the Argentine Republic in 1904.

She was, on May 14th 1910, called to Mendoza to organize another National Kindergarten and preparatory school. Mrs. Eccleston is 70 years of age and receives no pension. Her address is Calle Salguno, 1810 Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

Dr. Hill volunteered as a nurse in April 1863 and served as Miss Annie M. Hill until September 1865 in Army Square Hospital, Washington, D. C. She was a native of Massachusetts, but after the war located in Du- buque, Iowa, where after taking a medical course, she successfully practiced as a physician until a few months ago when failing health compelled her to give up her practice and she now resides with her brother in Chicago, Mr. Edward Hill.

Dr. Hill relates many thrilling pathetic events of her service, one of a young Kentucky boy who was drafted and on his way to the front became ill. His father and three brothers had enlisted in the Union Army, one brother being killed in battle. His mother tried in vain to get him off, but Miss Hill prevailed upon him to tell his story to President Lincoln. "You shall hear from me soon, any mother who has sent a husband and three sons to the Army shall keep her baby at home." Three days later an honorable discharge came for the boy signed by Abraham Lincoln.

Dr. Hill is 75 years old and resides at 1151 Union Ave., Chicago, 111.

iutsau £. iBamt, iffi. 0.

Susan E. Barry, M. D., (nee Susan E. Hall I , commenced her four years of service at the first Bull Run battle, and afterwards wherever needed, finishing her work at Chatanooga, Tennessee. Mrs. Barry was a medical graduate before she entered as a nurse, receiving her diploma after the close of the war.

She was a regular nurse serving under Miss Dix. She married Robert L. Barry after the war and went to Honolula. She has resided in Cali- fornia for a number of years and is 84 years old. She receives a pension of $1 2 per month.

iflrs. iitrlni iBraiuarfl (Cnlr

ittrii. ittanj A. fc. UliuiiUimrtb

Mrs. Cole served as a volunteer nurse in hospitals at Louisville, Ken- tucky ; Washington, D. C. ; Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and City Point, Virginia.

Mrs. Cole is 69 years of age and resides at Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She receives a pension of $12 per month. She is Department President, N. A. A. N. for Wisconsin.

ittni. t&rbrrra E. (braij

Mrs. Gray served as a volunteer nurse for neary two years at Fair Oaks. Virginia, in front of Richmond on the field and on the transport Vander- hell.

She is 69 years of age, is blind, bed ridden and dependant upon charity. She receives no pension. Her addresss is 7b2 Bergen St.. Brooklyn, New York.

iflrs. iflarii Atolatto 3obra

As Mary Adelaide Daugherty, she served about one year at hospital No. 15, Nashville, Tennessee, and at Adams Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.

Mrs. Jobes is 70 years of age and resides at 990 West 33rd St., Indian- apolis, Indiana. She receives a pension of $12 per month.

ifltfifl ^uiiatt iL fororll

Miss Susan R. Lovell's term of service was from February 1864 until September 1865, at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri and Wilson General Hospital, Cumberland Barracks, Nashville, Tennessee. Her residence is at 1 267 Lane St., Topeka, Kansas.

Miss Lovell is 78 years of age and receives a pension of $12 per month.

Mrs. Woodworth served under her maiden name. Miss Mary A. E. Keen from July 23rd 1861 to July 1865. The scene of her labors was in the Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, D. C. and at Chesapeake Hospital at Fortress Monroe. During her service she was under the jurisdiction of Miss Dix.

Her present address is 1424 S. St. N. W., Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Woodworth receives a pension. Age not given.

iflrs. iliarta ifl. (L LKirharihi

Miss Maria M. C. Hall, the name under which she served, was em- ployed from September 1861 to May 1865 in the Patent Office Hospital, Washington, D. C. on the James River Transports and Camps. Also in Smoketown Field Hospital after Antietam. and General Hospital, Annap- olis, Maryland.

Mrs. Richards' address is Weathersfield, Connecticut. She is 73 years of age and receives a pension of $12 per month.

ifluui Aiidia iCramtt.

Miss Leavitt served six months as a volunteer nurse being enlisted by Mrs. J. Cole, President of the Sanitary Commission of Wisconsin. She was sent to the Post Hospital at Milwaukee, March I, 1865 where she remained three months and was then transferred to Prairie Duchein Hospital, where she remained until its close in September 1865.

Miss Leavitt is 68 years of age and resides at Oconomowoc. Wisconsin. She does not receive a pension.

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ft

Si|P fallowing Jlom, rmnpnaea bo. iHiaa (Ulara barton, was rrao by Ijrr at tin* Mwcewsil Hr- r ration ano fBanqurt by tljr ICabtPB of ttjr {lotomar '" ' Olorpis at Hillaro's S?otfl. BHafiljington. i. €.,• « 3fourmbrr IB. 1892, in response to tltp aboitp toast.

The women who went to the field, you say. The women who went to the field; and pray What did they go for? — just to he in the way? They'd not know the difference betwixt work and

play. And what did they know about war, anyway? What could they do? of what use could they he? They would scream at the sight of a gun. don't you

see ? -Just fancy them round where the bugle-notes play. And the long roll is bidding us on to the fray. Imagine their skirts 'mong artillery wheels. And watch for their flutter as they flee 'cross the

fields

When the charge is rammed home and the fire

belches hot ; They never would wait for the answering shot. They would faint at the first drop of blood in their

sight. What fun for us boys, — (ere we enter the fight) ; They might piek some lint, and tear up some sheets. And make us some jellies, and send on their sweets. And knit some soft socks for Uncle Sam's shoes. And write us some letters, and tell us the news. And thus it was settled, by common consent. Of husbands, or brothers, or whoever went. That the place for the women was in their own

homes.

There to patiently wail until victory comes. I>"l later it chanced .just how, no one knew Thai the lines slipped a hil and some Van to crowd I hrpugh :

And they went; where did they go? Ah! where did- tJiey n,u I

Show us the battje. th,< fi-t. I. . or the snol

> *

\\ :i:-re ih< -.'roans of the wounded rang out on the

a ir

That her ear caughl it not. and her hand was nol there ;

Who wiped the death sweal iv»\u the cold, clammy broM .

And seni home the message: " Tis well with him

now " ; Who Watched III the tents whilst the feVef files

burned, And the pain-tossing limbs in agony turned. And wet the parched tongue, calmed delirum's strife

Till the dying lips murmured. "My mother." "My wife '" .'

And who wrvi' they all.' they were many, my men:

Their records were kepi by no tabular pen; The., exist in traditions from father to son. Who recalls, in dim memory, now here and there one.

A lew names were writ, and by chance live to-day; Kut 's perishing record, last fading away.

< M those we recall, there are scarcely a score — Dix. Dame. Bickerdyke, Edson, Harvey and Moore. Fales, Wittemeyer, (iilson. Safford and Lee. And poor Cutter, dead in the sands of the sea ;

Ami Prances I). Gage, our "Aunl Fanny" of old, Whose voice rang for freedom when freedom was

sold.

And Husband, and Etheridge. and Harlan and Case.

[jivermore, Alcott, Hancock and Chase,

And Turner, and Hawley, and Potter and Hall.

Ah! the list grows apace, as they come at the call: Did these women quail at the si<_dit of a gun? Will some soldier tell us of one he saw run.' \. ill he glance at the boats on the greal western flood,

At Pittsburg and Shiloh, did they faint at the blood.' And the brave wife of Grant stood there with them

then. And her calm stately presence gave strength to his

men.

And Marie of Logan : she went with them too ; A bride, scarcely more than sweetheart, 'tis true. Her young cheek grows pale when the bold troppers

ride. Where the "Black Eagle" soars, she is close at his

side. She staunches his blood, cools the fever-burnt breath, And the wave of her hand stays the Angel of Death ; She nurses him back, and restors once again To both army and state the great leader of men. She has smoothed his black plumes and laid them to

sleep Whilst the angels above them their high vigils keep; And she sits there alone, with the snow on her

brow — Your cheers for her, Comrades! Three cheers for

her now. And these were the women who went to the war: The women of question; what did they go for.'

Because in their hearts God had planted the seed Of pity for woe, and help for its need ; They saw, in high purpose, a duty to do. And the armor of right broke the barriers through. Uninvited, unaided, unsanctioned oftimes, With pass, or without it. they pressed on the lines; They pressed, they implored, till they ran the lines through.

And that was the "running" the men saw them do.- Twas a hampered work, its worth largely lost ; Twas hindrance, and pain, and effort, and cost : lint through these came knowledge, — knowledge is

power, — And never again in the deadliest hour Of war or of peace shall we be so beset To accomplish the purpose our spirits have met. And what would they do if war came again .' The scarlet cross floats where all was blank then. They would pin on their "brassards" and march to

the fray. And the man liveth not who could say to them nay; They would stand with you now. as they sood with

yon then. — ■ The nurses, consolers, and saviors of men.

(Hoi. iFrank fH. BlnrtU

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PAST DEPARTMENT COMMANDER, MISSOURI

Honorary Member NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ARMY NURSES

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