. 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 . National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penn. 496 OUR ARMY MRS. J. T. RICHARDS. ¥(9TITEX the Civil Wai* broke out my home was lAl with my parents, on a farm in Southern /^^ Wisconsin. My name was Selener J. Bray. ^^^^ We had but one brother at home, and it was not nntil the second call for three hnndred thonsand more men rang out over the jSTorth, that my brother felt it his dnty to go. In those days the love of countiy
. 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 . National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penn. 496 OUR ARMY MRS. J. T. RICHARDS. ¥(9TITEX the Civil Wai* broke out my home was lAl with my parents, on a farm in Southern /^^ Wisconsin. My name was Selener J. Bray. ^^^^ We had but one brother at home, and it was not nntil the second call for three hnndred thonsand more men rang out over the jSTorth, that my brother felt it his dnty to go. In those days the love of countiy was as strong inthe hearts of the loyal girls as in that of theirbrothers. AYe were ]:)roud to do as mnch of theirwork as possible, feeling that thns we were helpingto put down the rebellion. But all work grew intomountains in those troublesome times, and yet wewanted to do more to help save the country. It wasfound that not only could women care for the sickand wounded, but that they were needed to preparefood suitable for the sick. To meet this want lightDiet Kitchens were organized, and two Christianwomen placed in each kitchen, with power to drawneeded sujDplies from the Commission, and it wastheir duty to see that the fo
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