. 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 . f brothers, and this enragedtheir mother, who said: Yon are a negro. Youcannot learn. Have I not learned as much as mybrothers, and do I not stay in the office with father?he cried. In a short time he went, unsuspectingly,with a stranger on an errand, as he supposed; buthe never saw his home again. As I passed to and fro, I often noticed a littleyellow girl perched upon a fence. One day I said, See here, little Topsy, d
. 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 . f brothers, and this enragedtheir mother, who said: Yon are a negro. Youcannot learn. Have I not learned as much as mybrothers, and do I not stay in the office with father?he cried. In a short time he went, unsuspectingly,with a stranger on an errand, as he supposed; buthe never saw his home again. As I passed to and fro, I often noticed a littleyellow girl perched upon a fence. One day I said, See here, little Topsy, do you know you are free? No, missy. Well, you are, and there is a schoolat the Baptist Church for you. !N^ow go and tellyour mistress to send you there, or she will loseyou. The next day she was at the same placewatching the Yanks. Why are you not atschool? My missy say you Yanks better gohome an let our city lone, or de break-bone feverwill cotch yo. Thus the work went on, with many interruptionsand drawbacks, for about a year, while we did whatwe could for both patients and freedmen. Then Ireturned to my home. Mary A. Stdo^baugh-Bkadford. Miller, South Dakota. ■^tf^. \ MISS MARY VENARD. JWEN^T out under Governor Mortons first callfor nurses, commissioned by Mr. Hannaman,Sanitary Agent for the State of Indiana. Thiswas Feb. 4, 1863. I was then forty-one yearsof age. I was first sent to Nashville, Tenn., forthree 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 ]!!^ashville I returned to my home, where Iremained ten weeks; then received strict orders to goimmediately to l!^atchez. Miss. I was in the MarineHospital, and the fort was built up around us. Thiswas the fall after the siege of Vicksburg, and fordays and days we expected to be attacked, and hadevery
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