. 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 . mercyheard. His mother arrived just at the last. Shehad started after the funeral of her husband. Oneevening just after taps I had left the ward, whenthere was a knock at my door, with the announce-ment that the sick boys mother has arrived. Ihastened to welcome her, and made her comfortableto watch by her boy that night. A few days laterwe stood by his bed. His mother, too overcome, hadleft the room, when he said, Call
. 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 . mercyheard. His mother arrived just at the last. Shehad started after the funeral of her husband. Oneevening just after taps I had left the ward, whenthere was a knock at my door, with the announce-ment that the sick boys mother has arrived. Ihastened to welcome her, and made her comfortableto watch by her boy that night. A few days laterwe stood by his bed. His mother, too overcome, hadleft the room, when he said, Call mother; I want tosay good-bye. He said to her: Tell them at homeI die happy. I hope I am forgiven. I am going tofather. At his request the patients stood aroundhis bed and sang, Im going home, to die no the close of the hymn he breathed his last. Thespirit had gone to God, who gave it; and the wid-owed mother went home alone to mourn her oldestchild. My services as nurse commenced Feb. 15, 1863,at Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D. C,and covered nineteen months, with intervals ofabsence to get recruited. Ellen^ Marsh. LiNGWOOD, Princes Park, Liverpool, CLARA B. HOYT. ,/^^ the 15th of September, 1864, in response to1 I a call from Miss Dix, I bade adieu to home,Vii kindred, and friends, in Gravesville, l^ewYork, and wended my way toward the sceneof battle, to share in the horrors attendant on grimwar, as a volunteer nurse. A few days later I arrivedat Washington, and as Miss Dix was away, I wassent by her order to the Columbia College Hospital,for rest and instruction until her return. After eightdays I received word to report at headquarters, andwas immediately sent to the 18th Army Corps Hos-pital, Point of Rocks, Va. Arriving there I wasassigned to duty, Oct. 6, 1864, by Dr. Fowler,and remained there until the close of the war. It would be impossible for me to describe what Ipassed through. Oh, the pain, the groans, thedying struggles! Nothing but the stron
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