. 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 . las, a poor man came to me and requested thatI go to my room at the first alarm, and said he wouldstand by my door, and they would have to go overhis dead body to enter. But the pitiful part of itwas that he had no use of his legs,—had to shove his■feet along; one arm was disabled, and he had beenshot through the chest. It moved me to tears, andhe said, Do not be afraid; I will die fighting,Well I knew he would. IS^o su
. 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 . las, a poor man came to me and requested thatI go to my room at the first alarm, and said he wouldstand by my door, and they would have to go overhis dead body to enter. But the pitiful part of itwas that he had no use of his legs,—had to shove his■feet along; one arm was disabled, and he had beenshot through the chest. It moved me to tears, andhe said, Do not be afraid; I will die fighting,Well I knew he would. IS^o such patriots as ourscould be found. Perhaps I should add that the reason I understoodminor surgery so well, was because I had a thoroughcourse of instruction under Doctor Jameson, whogained great experience in the Crimean War, I alsohad a manual that treated of the surgery during thatwar; so I could, and did assist in many amputations. My name was then Lois Dennett; but at the closeof the war I was married to one of my first patients,whom I saved after five doctors had given him left the hospital in September, 1864. Lois H. Dtxnibae. 908 22d Street, Ogden, REBECCA WISWELL. JEI!^LISTED in Boston, the first week in March,1862, and was in Government employ threeyears and four months. Miss Dix sent for used to do up bandages, and carry them tothe State House every day. They said mine werethe best of any. One day they asked me if I hadever nursed. I told them I had for twenty years inBoston. They asked if I had any recommendations,and I told them I had plenty at home. Will youplease bring them up here and let us see them? theysaid. Then after looking at them: JSTo one who hasgone from this part of the country has had such highrecommendations. You ought to be out at the front;and with your consent we will telegraph. So theyimmediately sent for me to go to Washington, and Ispent the first night with Miss Dix. Next day shetook me up to Seminary Hospital. I stayed th
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