. 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 . to my home. This was in December; so when I applied for apension I found that I lacked two months of therequired time of service. While I was in the hospital a band of ladies cameevery week to bring dainties for me to distributeamong the sick ones. At the time the Southernersundertook to burn some of the buildings in the city 239 240 OUR ARMY NURSES. of l!*i^ew York, two women came to examine our hos-pital, but thought
. 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 . to my home. This was in December; so when I applied for apension I found that I lacked two months of therequired time of service. While I was in the hospital a band of ladies cameevery week to bring dainties for me to distributeamong the sick ones. At the time the Southernersundertook to burn some of the buildings in the city 239 240 OUR ARMY NURSES. of l!*i^ew York, two women came to examine our hos-pital, but thought they could not burn it veryreadily. Two of the soldiers who heard them talk-ing followed them to the city and had them arrested. There was a great deal to do, and I had to go upand down three or four flights of stairs constantly;but it was hard to leave, too. When I first wentthere the soldiers asked me if I was going to stay;and when I said I would, some of them looked very hard to see so many sick andwounded. I am now sixty-five years old, and broken down,but am still able to be around a part of the in F., C. and L., JaXE E. DtnSTBAK. Sparta, MARY A. STINEBAUGH-BRADFORD. J WAS born in Gallon, Ohio. My mothershealth was poor, and at an early age I washer trusted nurse and overseer of the children,and preferred this loving service to play. Iattended school at Gallon, Oberlin, and Cleveland,Ohio, and was a student at Oberlin College when thewar broke out. We were not blind to the fact thatblood must be shed. One of the professors and twostudents had already been imprisoned at HarpersFerry. Many of the students had friends in theKansas and Missouri troubles, and we were allwide awake. My brother, George Stinebaugh, then only twenty-one years of age, while on his way home fromKansas, stopped in Illinois and enlisted. He waswounded at Shiloh, and left on the field until ourmen retook it; then was sent to Mound City Hos-pital, Cairo, 111. We received a lett
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