. 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 . soon went tosleep. The next day I went to Washington with the sickmen, but could not procure furloughs. Then Ireturned to my twenty-two boys in Ward 11. OUR ARMY NURSES. 451 They were very glad to see me, and begged menot to go away again. They said it was lonesome,and no one told them any news. I remained thereuntil December, 1862. Ah, how many sad things happened! One night at six oclock I left one of my boys everso m
. 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 . soon went tosleep. The next day I went to Washington with the sickmen, but could not procure furloughs. Then Ireturned to my twenty-two boys in Ward 11. OUR ARMY NURSES. 451 They were very glad to see me, and begged menot to go away again. They said it was lonesome,and no one told them any news. I remained thereuntil December, 1862. Ah, how many sad things happened! One night at six oclock I left one of my boys everso much better than he had been. The next morn-ing a man met me with the news that Willie wasdead. I went to the dead-house to see him. Adoctor was there, who told me the boy was poi-soned. A soldier in the ward said that a womancame in with chocolate, and that Willie drank acupful, but none of the rest would. I felt verybadly. That was the only death in my ward. I nursed the soldiers carefully, cheered them ^11I could, and would see that they had plenty of goodfood, even if I had to put my hand in my ownpocket to pay for it. Elizabeth A. Hyatt. NORTHViLLE, Wayne Co., KATE M. DUNCAN. J SERVED one year at Patterson Park Hospital,Baltimore, Md., beginning in September, husband was wounded in the neck and wenthome. He was sick eighteen months; then Iwent with him when he returned to duty. The firstsix weeks I nursed in Ward 15. They had seventymen,—the worst cases of typhoid fever. I sat upevery other night, gave medicine, w^ashed and fedthe patients, etc. Doctor Ivnowles did not likewomen, and although the surgeon in charge putme there, he did not use me very well for a he soon trusted me to give medicine and see toeverything, and made me sit up nights, because hewould not trust the male nurses. This was too hardfor me, and the surgeon changed me to Ward 1 ofsurgical cases. Autand was the name of the Frenchsurgeon who had charge of that waid. His watch-chain
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