. 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 . 1st Maine Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penn. ^^^ .•^. T^. SUSAN COX. WE]!*^T into the service from Knox County, 111.,and served with the 83d Illinois Infantry, atFort Henry, Fort Donaldson and Clarksville,<^ from October, 1862, until June, 1864. Thisregiment was garrisoned at Fort Donaldson thegreater part of the time I was with them, so myexperience was less varied than that of many others. Once when my hu
. 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 . 1st Maine Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penn. ^^^ .•^. T^. SUSAN COX. WE]!*^T into the service from Knox County, 111.,and served with the 83d Illinois Infantry, atFort Henry, Fort Donaldson and Clarksville,<^ from October, 1862, until June, 1864. Thisregiment was garrisoned at Fort Donaldson thegreater part of the time I was with them, so myexperience was less varied than that of many others. Once when my husband had gone with most of thecompany thirty-five miles up the Cumberland River,to guard a boat, we were surrounded, and a fightoccurred. The Northern women were ordered onboard a boat that was to drop down the on the way to the landing the shot andshell Avere flying all around us, and I saw one ofour boys lying dead, having been fearfully mangled. One of our soldiers was condemned for desertion,and I saw him shot in the presence of the whole com-mand. The men were formed in a hollow square, sothat all could see very plainly. He stood in thecenter with the nine men, who aimed their guns athis breast, and eight bullets pierc
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