. 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 . the wards, we feel compensated in knowingwe made many of the 230or, half-dead, exchangedprisoners feel new springs of life running throughtheir veins from the food we prepared for them. Yetmany of them were past recovery; no effort couldbring back the natural look from the vacant stare ofthat glazed, wondering expression in the eyes of ourstarved boys who came to our hospital in such largenumbers from Southern j^rison p
. 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 . the wards, we feel compensated in knowingwe made many of the 230or, half-dead, exchangedprisoners feel new springs of life running throughtheir veins from the food we prepared for them. Yetmany of them were past recovery; no effort couldbring back the natural look from the vacant stare ofthat glazed, wondering expression in the eyes of ourstarved boys who came to our hospital in such largenumbers from Southern j^rison pens. The averagedeath rate for many weeks reached six a day — poor,starved boys! Their coffins were white pine, andmany of their names unknown. Here Mrs. Witten-meyer had the superintendence of Sanitary ChristianCommission work, where she nobly performed herpart. I have always cherished with delight thethought that I had done something. MkS. J. T. RlCHAJlDS. 206 Washington Avenue, Mason City, Iowa. [We congratulate Mrs. Richards upon the important part of hernursing; no less a nurse because of her superintendence of the DietKitchen.— Mary A. Gardner Holland.] 1 i^A. MARY E. BELL. J WAS born in Hillsborough, Highland County,Ohio, July 28, 1840. I went from my homein Beliefontaine, Ohio, in September, 1863, tobegin my work in the war at Covington Bar-racks, Kentucky. My husband, A. O. Hartley, washospital steward, and I assisted him in caring for thesick of the regiment at that place. In ISTovemberwe were ordered to Munfordsville, Ky., and wentinto winter quarters there. A post hospital wasimmediately established, and I was appointed ma-tron by the surgeon in charge. Here the sick ofthese regiments, and also the sick and wounded whowere brought in to us, received the most carefultreatment. Everything was done that would add totheir speedy recovery or their comfort. I had special care of the low diet for the very sickpatients, but my care extended to all in the w
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