. 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 . ELIZABETH O. GIBSON. /^N the first day of October, 1861, I received11 orders from Washington, through Miss Doro-^^ thea Dix, to report for duty at St. Louis,immediately. Uj^on my arrival I was detailedto duty October 2d, in the surgical ward of FifthStreet Military Hospital, St. Louis, where I served,under Di-. John T. Hodgen, twenty-one patients and nurses were removed to Jeffer-son Barracks, Missouri, twelv
. 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 . ELIZABETH O. GIBSON. /^N the first day of October, 1861, I received11 orders from Washington, through Miss Doro-^^ thea Dix, to report for duty at St. Louis,immediately. Uj^on my arrival I was detailedto duty October 2d, in the surgical ward of FifthStreet Military Hospital, St. Louis, where I served,under Di-. John T. Hodgen, twenty-one patients and nurses were removed to Jeffer-son Barracks, Missouri, twelve miles down the John F. Randolph, of the regular army, was incharge there. My detail of service to that hospitalwas dated July 24, 1863. October 26th I received orders to report for dutyat Harvey Genei-al Hospital, Madison, Wis., andOct. 13, 1865, received my discharge from hospitalservice, and returned to Cincinnati; my dischargebeing signed by Dr. Howard Culbertson, who wasin charge at the Harvey Hospital. To write a sketch of that four years would requiremore space than you could give, but I must say this:I count it a high honor to have been an army nurse
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