. 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 . obert Lees farm, on ArlingtonHeights. Here great hardships were endured,many of the wounded from the battle of Bull OUR ARMY NURSES. 311 Kun having been brought there; and I workedalmost day and night to lessen their Hartsun Crowell, of Bangor, Me., was the onlynurse besides myself in the hospital. We were in this camp about five months, when theregiment advanced to Halls Hill, where the winterwas spent.
. 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 . obert Lees farm, on ArlingtonHeights. Here great hardships were endured,many of the wounded from the battle of Bull OUR ARMY NURSES. 311 Kun having been brought there; and I workedalmost day and night to lessen their Hartsun Crowell, of Bangor, Me., was the onlynurse besides myself in the hospital. We were in this camp about five months, when theregiment advanced to Halls Hill, where the winterwas spent. Here, in addition to my duties as nurse,my trade as a seamstress came into play, and Irepaired or made over hundreds of overcoats andblankets for the men. On the 14th of March, 1862, the regiment wasordered to Alexandria, and I was transferred to theSeminary Hospital, at Georgetown, D. C. Here Iremained nearly a year; then my health began tofail, and I received an honorable discharge. This is the story of the brave Maine woman,briefly and modestly told; but the boys Avho wore theblue can read volumes between the lines. Her address is ^Nai^cy M. Gross. BucKSPORT, 1st Maine Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penn. ^^^ .•^. T^
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