. 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 . ve and noble boyswill always linger in my the time the war broke ont my home was inColdwater, Mich. I entered the service with myhusband sometime in May, 1861, as a volunteer nurse,and was not under authority of any one e:xcept thesurgeon. Later I was appointed matron of HospitalNo. 13, Kashville, Tenn., and remained there fromSeptember, 1862, until January, 1863. This hospitalwas in chai-ge of H. J. Herrick, M
. 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 . ve and noble boyswill always linger in my the time the war broke ont my home was inColdwater, Mich. I entered the service with myhusband sometime in May, 1861, as a volunteer nurse,and was not under authority of any one e:xcept thesurgeon. Later I was appointed matron of HospitalNo. 13, Kashville, Tenn., and remained there fromSeptember, 1862, until January, 1863. This hospitalwas in chai-ge of H. J. Herrick, , of the 17thKegiment Ohio Volunteers. I then went to No. 20,Nashville, and stayed until May, as matron underJ. R. Goodwin, , surgeon in charge. I was also in a hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn., andat Huntsville, Ala. In all, I was in hospitals about a year; the remainderof the time I was in camp or on the march with myhusband, Capt. George W. Van Pelt, and I alwaysfound plenty of work to do there. My husband fellin the battle of Chickamauga, in September, 1863,and in November I left the service. Mary A. Loomis. Burr Oak, St. Joseph Co., Micu. 88 OUR ARMY MRS. EMMA L. SIMONDS.
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