. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . ELIZABETH A. HYATT. N^ 1861 my hnsbaiicl enlisted at Chilton, Wis., inCo. Iv, l:th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers,and joined the other companies at Racine in^^^ June. I ivent to bid my hnsband good-byebefore he marched to Dixie, and found plenty ofwork there to do in camp and hospital. Some ofmy neighbors were sick, and I did not wait for aninvitation, but cooked, nursed, and did whatever Isaw to do imtil the regiment r
. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . ELIZABETH A. HYATT. N^ 1861 my hnsbaiicl enlisted at Chilton, Wis., inCo. Iv, l:th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers,and joined the other companies at Racine in^^^ June. I ivent to bid my hnsband good-byebefore he marched to Dixie, and found plenty ofwork there to do in camp and hospital. Some ofmy neighbors were sick, and I did not wait for aninvitation, but cooked, nursed, and did whatever Isaw to do imtil the regiment received orders to goSonth; then packed my grip to go home. But: whenI went to bid the doctor good-bye, he said: O no,Mrs. Hyatt; you cant go. Dont think of such athing. You are just the kind of a woman we asked me to walk over to see the colonel withhim. The matter was soon decided, and I went toBaltimore with them. I then received a certificate,and served in Patterson Park Hospital, in Ward 11,where I had twenty-two soldiers under my General Dix and General Wool exchangedplaces, General Wool went to Baltimore, and Gen-eral Dix to Fortress Monroe; so
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