. 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 . ttle of Corinth, in October. Then the regimentleft me and went home to Missouri, on a recruitingfurlough, where they remained until ISTovember, 18G2. In December my husband was taken with thetyphoid fever, and was sent to Mound City Hospital,111., where he remained until March, 1863, and duringall this time I heard nothing from him. Then Ireceived a pass, and word that he was back with hisregiment, and needed my care. I
. 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 . ttle of Corinth, in October. Then the regimentleft me and went home to Missouri, on a recruitingfurlough, where they remained until ISTovember, 18G2. In December my husband was taken with thetyphoid fever, and was sent to Mound City Hospital,111., where he remained until March, 1863, and duringall this time I heard nothing from him. Then Ireceived a pass, and word that he was back with hisregiment, and needed my care. I stayed there untilthey moved to Memphis, Tenn., where they remaineduntil the winter of 1864. I did not go into the hospitals after this, but waitedupon the sick in tents. AYhen the regiment went toVicksburg I returned to Benton Barracks, where Ilived until my husband was discharged. He hadcontinued on duty although he did not speak a wordaloud for four years after having the fever. My nursing was over, but I did some cooking atthe barracks for paroled soldiers from Southernprisons, who were not able to cook their rations for themselves. Mary E. Darling. San Diego, HANNAH E. STARBIRD. JE:NLISTED in August, 1864, under my maidenname of Hannah E. Judkins, from Skowhegan,Maine, under Miss Dix, who had charge of allthe regularly enlisted nurses. I reported at herhouse in Washington, and was sent to Carver Hos-pital immediately, where I first ministered to thewounded and afflicted soldiers. I remained thereonly three weeks, and was then transferred to College Hospital, Annapolis, Md., where S. Palmer was sui-geon in charge. I was thereuntil the hospital was broken up, July 15, 1865. Itaccommodated about twelve hundred patients, andsometimes there were fourteen nurses. It was a postfor paroled prisoners, who were our patients. Pencannot describe the first boat-load of half-starved,half-clothed, thin, emaciated forms whose feet, tiedup in rags, left footprints of
Size: 1465px × 1706px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidourarmynurse, bookyear1897
