. 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 . \ ..Tn. MISS MARY VENARD. JWE^NT out under Governor Morton\s first callfor nurses, commissioned by Mr. Ilannaman,Sanitary Agent for the State of Indiana. Thiswas Feb. 4, 1863. I was then forty-one yearsof age. I was first sent to ]N^ashville, Tenn., fi3rthree months, but stayed six. Was in the HowardHigh School Building, and had charge of the DietKitchen, but at the same time I did a great deal ofnursing. As a compliment
. 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 . \ ..Tn. MISS MARY VENARD. JWE^NT out under Governor Morton\s first callfor nurses, commissioned by Mr. Ilannaman,Sanitary Agent for the State of Indiana. Thiswas Feb. 4, 1863. I was then forty-one yearsof age. I was first sent to ]N^ashville, Tenn., fi3rthree months, but stayed six. Was in the HowardHigh School Building, and had charge of the DietKitchen, but at the same time I did a great deal ofnursing. As a compliment to my cooking I received a verybeautiful and practical cook-book, which I never feltthat I deserved. From JSTashville I returned to my home, where 1remained ten weeks; then received strict orders to goimmediately to Natchez, Miss. I was in the MarineHospital, and the fort was built up around us. Thiswas the fall after the siege of Yicksburg, and fordays and days we expected to be attacked, and hadeverything in readiness to be removed at a momentsnotice. General Thomas came down the river withhis regiment, and sent out his soldiers to reconnoiter,and that stopped it. The surge
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