. 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 . SUSAN COX. JWEXT into the service from Knox Comity, 111.,and served with the 8od Illinois Infantry, atFort Henry, Fort Donaldson and Clarksville,from October, 1862, until June, 1864. Thisregiment was garrisoned at Fort Donaldson thegreater part of the time I was with, them, so myexperience was less varied than that of many when my husband had gone with most of thecompany thirty-iive miles up the Cumberland Ri
. 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 . SUSAN COX. JWEXT into the service from Knox Comity, 111.,and served with the 8od Illinois Infantry, atFort Henry, Fort Donaldson and Clarksville,from October, 1862, until June, 1864. Thisregiment was garrisoned at Fort Donaldson thegreater part of the time I was with, them, so myexperience was less varied than that of many when my husband had gone with most of thecompany thirty-iive miles up the Cumberland River,to guard a boat, we Avere surrounded, and a fightoccurred. The INJ^orthern women were ordered onboard a boat that was to drop down the on the way to the landing the shot andshell w^ere flying all around us, and I saw one ofour boys lying dead, having been fearfully of our soldiers w as condemned for desertion,and I saw him shot in the presence of the whole com-mand. The men were formed in a hollow square, sothat all could see very plainly. He stood in thecenter with the nine men, Avho aimed their guns athis breast, and eight bullets pierced
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