. 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 . dson, Tenn., where I helped tocare for the sick and wounded during the battle, andafterwards on a hospital steamer. I next accom-panied a party of soldiers to Cairo, where I cared forthem until all but one were able to leave the at Fort Donaldson I have sometimes gonetwo or three days Avithout any sleep, and with onlyan occasional cup of coffee or some hard-tack, which Iwould eat as I went in and out amon
. 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 . dson, Tenn., where I helped tocare for the sick and wounded during the battle, andafterwards on a hospital steamer. I next accom-panied a party of soldiers to Cairo, where I cared forthem until all but one were able to leave the at Fort Donaldson I have sometimes gonetwo or three days Avithout any sleep, and with onlyan occasional cup of coffee or some hard-tack, which Iwould eat as I went in and out among the sick. Atone time all the sleep I had for three nights wason the bare floor, between my husband and a sicksoldier, and with my husbands arm for a pillow. JSTo one but the poor boys themselves can imagineas we nurses can what suffering they had to endureduring the Kebellion. I recall one poor old coloredman who had borne a great deal, having been shotseveral times. I took eighteen buckshot out of hisback one day. I was in the hospitals something over nine months;then my husband died, and I returned to my in F., C. and L., Maky E. Moore. King City, Mo. 293. LOIS H. DUNBAR. SY war record is one of hard labor and severetrials. I went from Michigan City, Ind., toSt. Louis, :Nov. 10, 1861. Doctor Hodgeswas the surgeon in charge. There were onethousand patients; Mrs. Harriet Colefax and Ihaving three hundred under our immediate chargemost of the time, when the wounded were broughtoff the boats from Fort Donaldson. I thought weshould never be able to do our duty by so many, butwe worked as only women can; and my experiencethere is something I shall never forget. I pickedmy way among them as they were brought in, oftenwhere it was hard to find standing room, and ren-dered what aid I could to the worst cases. One poorfellow had died on the way, his spurs still on whenwe found him. In April, 1862, Governor Morton sent a requestfor Mrs. Colefax and I to report at Evansville
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