. 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 . heart as largeas a human body could hold. He and his crew didall they could do in their cramped condition to carefor so many. Fortunately for us and the Libby asteamer from Hilton Head, bound for IN^cav York,overtook us on the morning of the 30th, and con-veyed us to ^ew York, arriving in the night. Doctor McClintock sent me to the State SanitaryCommission, and as soon as they knew of the terribledisaster I had passed t
. 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 . heart as largeas a human body could hold. He and his crew didall they could do in their cramped condition to carefor so many. Fortunately for us and the Libby asteamer from Hilton Head, bound for IN^cav York,overtook us on the morning of the 30th, and con-veyed us to ^ew York, arriving in the night. Doctor McClintock sent me to the State SanitaryCommission, and as soon as they knew of the terribledisaster I had passed through, they presented mewith fifty dollars and took me to the New EnglandRooms, a temporary hospital, w^here I was cared foras if I had been a princess. For weeks this terriblescene was kept fresh in my mind by one and anotherinquiring for friends. It was almost beyond mypower of endurance to recount that heart-rending-scene. Our dear soldiers on that sinking ship; onehundred and ninety-four went down with her! Shall we meet beyond the river,Where the surges cease to roll?Where, in all the bright forever, Sorrow neer shall press the soul ? Mother Raxsom, of MRS. M. A. BICKERDYKE. JSERYED in onr great Civil War from June9, 1861, to March 20, 1865. I did the workof one, and tided to do it well. I was mnineteen haid-fonght battles, in the depart-ments of the Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberlandarmies. Fort Donelson, February 15th and 16th,was the first battle to which I was eye-witness;Pittsburg Landing, April 6th and 7th, the second;luka, September 20th, the third; and Corinth, Octo-ber 3d and 4th, the fourth. In January, 1863, we went from Corinth to Mem-phis, and from January to October, 1863, passed63,800 men through our hospitals. During the siege of Vicksburg I made severaltrips from that city with wounded soldiers to theMemphis hospitals. On the 27th of October I received orders to reportat Chattanooga, and arrived m time to see the battleof Lookout Mountain,—that
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