. 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 . LLIS. T^OUR letter addressed to my mother, Mrs. Eliza- Y beth E. Ellis, was forwarded to me, as she was I called to her reward three years ago. I am ^^ sorry I cannot give yon as full an account as I should like, but will do the best I can, as I would like her work to be known. My father, too, served three years and a half, andfinally lost his life on the ill-fated Sultana. Mother volunteered, and was duly enrolled as an
. 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 . LLIS. T^OUR letter addressed to my mother, Mrs. Eliza- Y beth E. Ellis, was forwarded to me, as she was I called to her reward three years ago. I am ^^ sorry I cannot give yon as full an account as I should like, but will do the best I can, as I would like her work to be known. My father, too, served three years and a half, andfinally lost his life on the ill-fated Sultana. Mother volunteered, and was duly enrolled as anarmy nurse, Jan. 14, 1863. She was then twenty-eight years old. She served at Woodward PostHospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, for fifteen months, when,owing to ill health, she was honorably Avent from Talmage, Ohio, and served under Johnson, at least a part of the time. I know her heart and soul were in the work, andshe never lost her interest in the old soldiers, butduring her last years was the means of securing pen-sions for some who were under her care in thehospital. In F., C. and L., Mrs. Nettie E. Wenk. Knightstown, Ind. 225 226 OUR ARMY
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