. 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 . 206 OUR ARMY ESTELLE S. JOHNSON. JHA\TE been requested to write what I can re-member about my life as an army nurse, whilein the hospital of the 4th Vermont Volun-teers. I hardly know what to say, as it is newwork for me to write for a book. When the war broke out I lived in a little countryvillage shut in by the mountains of Vermont. Oneday in August, 1861, Leonard Stearns came in searchof recruits. My husband
. 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 . 206 OUR ARMY ESTELLE S. JOHNSON. JHA\TE been requested to write what I can re-member about my life as an army nurse, whilein the hospital of the 4th Vermont Volun-teers. I hardly know what to say, as it is newwork for me to write for a book. When the war broke out I lived in a little countryvillage shut in by the mountains of Vermont. Oneday in August, 1861, Leonard Stearns came in searchof recruits. My husband and his brother-in-law wereamong those who enlisted, and sister and I objected,naturally; telling the recruiting officer that if ourhusbands went we should go too, but not thinldngthat such a thing could be. In the course of a week Mr. Stearns came and toldus that the colonel said that although nurses had notbeen called for, he w^anted us to go. The boysformed a company under Capt. Leonard A. Stearns,and went into camp at Brattleboro. They w^ere as-signed to the 4th Vermont Regiment, Compau} I. On September 18th we were sent to join them, andon the 20th signed our names — Estelle S. Johns
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