. Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war . isoners encamped inan open field a short distance fi-om the were many boys not more than twelve orfifteen years old among them. So as the sickfrom this camp Avere brought to our hospital, itchanced that one little fellow, not more than four-teen, sick with typhoid fever, came under my Avas delirious, and called piteously for his mother;so his nurse called me, and as I sat by his side heopened his e
. Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war . isoners encamped inan open field a short distance fi-om the were many boys not more than twelve orfifteen years old among them. So as the sickfrom this camp Avere brought to our hospital, itchanced that one little fellow, not more than four-teen, sick with typhoid fever, came under my Avas delirious, and called piteously for his mother;so his nurse called me, and as I sat by his side heopened his eyes and exclaimed, Mother! thenthrcAV his arms around my neck. I soothed hisfcAA last hours, and alloAved him to think that IAvas his mother. And thus such incidents mightbe multiplied. Only those who ha\^e had experience in the hospi-tal, or prison, or on the battlefield, can realize hoAvbarbarous and cruel a thing is war. With theincrease of liberal thought, and the broader A^iewof the value and responsibility of life, war betweencivilized peoples should be w^ell-nigh we never have another! is my earnestprayer. Mrs. Helen E. Smith. 510 OUR ARMY MOTHER RANSOM, OF INDIANA. THE SINKING SHIP, **1Rortb Hmerlca. J HAD been appointed aid to our physician, , in charge of a large numl^er ofsick soldiers, who were to be transported totheir homes or to Northern hospitals. In mak-ing preparations I came to a poor fellow whose wan,appealing face touched a tender cord of my being, andI said, Are you going to start North to-night?He turned wearily, and said, I fear I am too weakto endure the vo^^age, unless there were some one onwhom I could depend. I said, I may go. Oh!then I will venture, his face beaming with preparations were all made, and we sailed inthe Government transj^ort ISorth America, com-manded by Captain Marshman, of Philadelphia. Westarted on the evening of December 16, 1864, at sixoclock. The ship was manned by forty-four men
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