. 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 . ndshe directed these men in the performance of theirduty. In her enlarged field of action she had ampleopportunity to display that womanly kindness andsympathy which made the army nurses so dear tothe hearts of the soldiers. She had under her chargethe wounded from many a famous battlefield, andcould relate many interesting and touching inci-dents which came under her immediate sixteen months she Ietired fro
. 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 . ndshe directed these men in the performance of theirduty. In her enlarged field of action she had ampleopportunity to display that womanly kindness andsympathy which made the army nurses so dear tothe hearts of the soldiers. She had under her chargethe wounded from many a famous battlefield, andcould relate many interesting and touching inci-dents which came under her immediate sixteen months she Ietired from the service,January, 1864, receiving the following recom-mendation from the surofeon in charoe: — U. S. A. General Hospital,Judiciary Square, Washington, D. C, January, certifies that Miss Milliken has been employed in this hospi-tal, as nurse, for many months. Slie has always been found faithfulto her duties, kind to the patients, and strictly honest; thus com-bining all the qualities of a good nurse and estimable woman. A. Hartsuff. In 1872 Miss Milliken married, and her presentaddress is Mrs. Wm. X. Sprague. Lynn, Mass. 174 OUR ARMY NURSES. ■-*■ ^t. LUCY L. CAMPBELL KAISER. ■:N April, 1861, I left my home in St. Charles, 111., and went to Chicago, and from there to St. I Louis, where I went to a hotel and watched^^ all incidental affairs pertaining to the Rebellion,until the battle of Carthage. Then I consulted withprominent men as to how and where I could applymy individual work in the way that would be mostacceptable; and soon found a place at Jefferson Bar-racks, Mo., then the old United States Post left my name and address with the steward, whopromised to send for me as soon as I was needed;then returned to St. Louis, where I spent the periodof waiting in visiting soldiers who came to camp inand around the old Fair Ground, and I found manyin need of care, as well as articles of actual necessity,which I furnished by writing to prominent ladi
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