. 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 . u^i ss# k ^^.J. MRS. W. N. SPRAGUE. ^^^HE subject of this sketch, Sarah J. MilHken,(e) (s) was born m Baldwin, Me., Aug. 3, 1830,and was the daughter of Josiah and Sally^ ^ (Townsend) Milliken. At the age of twentyshe went to Lynn, where her brother had precededher, and remained until the breaking out of the the first year of the Kebellion she was inMaine, where, in company with other patrioticwomen, she was
. 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 . u^i ss# k ^^.J. MRS. W. N. SPRAGUE. ^^^HE subject of this sketch, Sarah J. MilHken,(e) (s) was born m Baldwin, Me., Aug. 3, 1830,and was the daughter of Josiah and Sally^ ^ (Townsend) Milliken. At the age of twentyshe went to Lynn, where her brother had precededher, and remained until the breaking out of the the first year of the Kebellion she was inMaine, where, in company with other patrioticwomen, she was engaged in making army clothesfor the men at the front. But tiring of this, shewished to be of more use to her country. An op-portunity came when Miss Dix called for volunteernurses. With two other women she left her home, inSeptember, 1862, and became a regularly enlistedarmy nurse. When she arrived in Washington,the city was crowded with sick and woundedsoldiers, and every available building was used asa temporary hospital. She was first assigned aplace in the court-room of the City Hall building,where for nearly a month she ministered to thewants and relieved the suffering of the so
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