. 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 . Lees farm, on ArlingtonHeights. Here great hardships were endured,many of the wounded from the battle of Bull OUR ARMY NURSES. 311 Klin having been broug-lit thei-e; and I workedalmost day and night to lessen their Hartsnn Crowell, of Bangor, Me., was the onlynnrse besides myself in the hospital. ^ We were in this camp abont five months, when theregiment advanced to Halls Hill, where the winterwas spent.
. 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 . Lees farm, on ArlingtonHeights. Here great hardships were endured,many of the wounded from the battle of Bull OUR ARMY NURSES. 311 Klin having been broug-lit thei-e; and I workedalmost day and night to lessen their Hartsnn Crowell, of Bangor, Me., was the onlynnrse besides myself in the hospital. ^ We were in this camp abont five months, when theregiment advanced to Halls Hill, where the winterwas spent. Here, in addition to my duties as nurse,my trade as a seamstress came into play, and Irepaired or made over hundreds of overcoats andblankets for the men. On the 14:th of March, 1862, the regiment wasordered to Alexandria, and I was transferred to theSeminary Hospital, at Georgetown, D. C. Here Iremained nearly a year; then my health began tofail, and I received an honorable discharge. This is the story of the brave Maine woman,briefly and modestly told; but the boys who wore theblue can read volumes between the lines. Her address is ^ANCY ]Vr. Gross. BUCKSPORT, 1st Maine Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penn. 312 OUR ARMY NURSES.
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