. 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 . ne, and under Avhat circum-stances? Those soldiers could never be anythingbut her boys to Mother Bickerdyke, and shecould not desert them noAv, Avhen maimed, andbroken in health and fortune, they must go backto the old homes, or wander about in search ofnew ones. From that time until the present dayshe has been constantly interested for their the old ^New England homestead, in the sunnyvalleys of California, o
. 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 . ne, and under Avhat circum-stances? Those soldiers could never be anythingbut her boys to Mother Bickerdyke, and shecould not desert them noAv, Avhen maimed, andbroken in health and fortune, they must go backto the old homes, or wander about in search ofnew ones. From that time until the present dayshe has been constantly interested for their the old ^New England homestead, in the sunnyvalleys of California, or on Western prairies, Avher-ever the soldiers have made their homes, the name ofMother Bickerdyke will be spoken with reverentiallove, until her boys are mustered out, and theirtongues are silent in death. OUR ARMY NURSES. 533 She is now eighty-two years old, and very smartfor one of that age. She keeps a secretary toconduct her large corresiDondence, coming fromsoldiers in all parts of the country.^Her son, Prof. J. B. Bickerdyke, lives in Russell,Ivansas, and with him his honored mother finds apleasant retreat in which to pass the sunset of her-long and useful 534 OUR ARMY NURSES.
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