. 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 . d to service Oct. 3, 1864, in the hnendepartment. This hospital was a little city in itself. OUR ARMY NURSES. 3^19 It Avas iitsually crowded, and fiiteen hundred menwere in it now. There was a diet kitchen, con-valescent dining room and kitchen, commissary,bakery, and a hirge, elegant drug store. The laun-dry was run by machinery, and a Mr. Hamilton didthe heavy lifting and kept the books. The linenroom was on the plan o
. 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 . d to service Oct. 3, 1864, in the hnendepartment. This hospital was a little city in itself. OUR ARMY NURSES. 3^19 It Avas iitsually crowded, and fiiteen hundred menwere in it now. There was a diet kitchen, con-valescent dining room and kitchen, commissary,bakery, and a hirge, elegant drug store. The laun-dry was run by machinery, and a Mr. Hamilton didthe heavy lifting and kept the books. The linenroom was on the plan of a large dry-goods store. While in this hospital Miss Edgar was married toAlexander G. Weed, who was hospital steward ofthe 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantiy. She washonorably discharged in the fall of 1865, and returnedto private life. She has many letters dating from 1862 to 1892,which express gratefulness and appreciation for herservices. Thirty years have flown since those days; she isnow gray, and inclined to live in the past, andthink over the scenes of war-times. She has been awidow since 1891. Her address is Margaret A. Weed. Russell, Kan. 350 OUR ARMY
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