. 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 . n this ward thatshe describes I was on duty foi-ty-two nights insuccession, and at any time afterwards when criticalcases needed a womans watchfulness. In the four years of service I fainted only once,but many and many a night I have thought I couldnot live until morning, so intense was my sympathywith the soldiers; and not until I join the silentmajority shall I be free from bodily sufferingcaused by my Avar experiences
. 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 . n this ward thatshe describes I was on duty foi-ty-two nights insuccession, and at any time afterwards when criticalcases needed a womans watchfulness. In the four years of service I fainted only once,but many and many a night I have thought I couldnot live until morning, so intense was my sympathywith the soldiers; and not until I join the silentmajority shall I be free from bodily sufferingcaused by my Avar experiences. I was allowed to go to the battlefield of Shiloh,because I could dress wounds; also to Yicksburgduring the siege. From Shiloh our boat took fourhundred and thirty-nine men. They were the laston the field, and many of them were mortallywounded. From Vicksburg the boat carried lessthan from Shiloh, but on the return trip we hadthe experience of being fired upon by the gunboat that was guarding us soon scatteredthem, however, and we were not molested in F., C. and L., Elizabeth O. Gibson. 849 Appleton Stiieet, Appletox, Wis. 390 OUR ARMY NURSES. ^. MATILDA E. MORRIS. i ARLY in the war I conceived the phm of going^ into some hospital as a nurse; but my friendswould not listen to my plan, saying there was^ work enongh to do at home In spite of this,I conld not feel that making shirts, bandages, etc.,was all I ought to do. My mother finally gave herconsent, and I wrote to David Todd, then Governorof Ohio, to see if I could get a pass. In about aweek came a reply, containing pass and transporta-tion to Washington, D. C. I was not long inmaking my preparations, yet it seemed a great un-dertaking, as I was not accustomed to travelingalone. It was one morning in August, 1862, that Ileft my home in Randolph, Ohio, leaving my twodear little daughters in the care of their loyal grand-parents, Avho bade me Godspeed in my undertaking,though it was a sad joarting,— f
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