My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion . Inspectors sent to Camps and Hospitals —Monographs prepared on the Hygiene of the Anny — Portable Soup-Kettles — Hospital Cars —Forty Soldiers Homes — Claim, Pension,and Back Pay Agency—Hospital Directory — Battle-field ReliefService— Ten Branch Commissions — Relief rendered at Sliilohand Antietam —The Supplies, or Money for their Purchase, Made orCollected by Women. ?HE work of sanitary relie
My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion . Inspectors sent to Camps and Hospitals —Monographs prepared on the Hygiene of the Anny — Portable Soup-Kettles — Hospital Cars —Forty Soldiers Homes — Claim, Pension,and Back Pay Agency—Hospital Directory — Battle-field ReliefService— Ten Branch Commissions — Relief rendered at Sliilohand Antietam —The Supplies, or Money for their Purchase, Made orCollected by Women. ?HE work of sanitary relief was very soonoutlined by the necessities and sufferings ofthe men at the front. In the early periodof the war, the troops reached their des-tinations generally in a very unsatisfactorycondition. They were crowded into cattlecars as if they were beasts, frequently with emptyhaversacks, and with no provision for their comforton the road. Prompted by generous impulse, menand women boarded the trains as they halted at thestations in cities, and served to the men hot coffeeand such food as could most readily be it was only by accident, or through tireless and 1*23. 124 iGNORA^^CE AXD i:n^competence. patient Avatching, that they were enabled to renderthis small service to their countrys defenders; for notelegram announced the coming of the hungry men,nor for long and weary months was a system devisedfor the comfort and solace of the soldiers, as theypassed to and from the battle-field. Many became illor exhausted from exposure, but no relief was fur-nished. Rarely were preparations made for their reception. Men stood for hours in a broiling sun, or drenchingrain, waiting for rations and shelter, while their igno-rant and inexperienced Commissaries and Quarter-masters were slowly and painfully learning the dutiesof their positions. At last, utterly worn out and dis-gusted, they reached their camps, where they receivedrations as unwholesome as dis
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