. 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 . Dix gave lier leave of absence, stipnhiting that ifthere shonld be more fighting, and help needed, sheshould return. Taking an affectionate leave of her boys, andthe lady friends with whom she had been so long-associated, she took, as it proved, a final leave ofhospital life, having served there nine months. In 1883, Miss Palmer was elected an honorarymember of Keese Post, No. 49, G. A. P., Canastota,]^. Y., and in 1891
. 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 . Dix gave lier leave of absence, stipnhiting that ifthere shonld be more fighting, and help needed, sheshould return. Taking an affectionate leave of her boys, andthe lady friends with whom she had been so long-associated, she took, as it proved, a final leave ofhospital life, having served there nine months. In 1883, Miss Palmer was elected an honorarymember of Keese Post, No. 49, G. A. P., Canastota,]^. Y., and in 1891 was granted a special pension oftwelve dollars per month. She helped to organizePeese Pelief Corps, ]So. 77, in Se]3tember, 1892; wasone of its charter members, and has been three timesre-elected president, which office she now holds. Looking back from this year (1895) upon those dark days of war, she can but be grateful for the happy and honorable ending of the strife, and for the past prosperity of the country, feeling sure that righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Her address is Hannah L. Palmer. Canastota, N. Y. 270 OUR ARMY MARY M. RRIGGS. ^nnpY grandfather was with Washington at ValleyIf I Forge, and through the entire war. My fatherf ^ was a ■ Connecticut Yankee, so we children■^^^ received many lessons on patriotism, and it isno wonder that when our beloved land was threatened,my three brothers enlisted at once in her defense, asdid my husband, also, and I applied at once to MissDix for a connnission as nurse. It was granted June19, 1861, and in August I was summoned to to my work. I was then a resident of Madi-son, Wis., and was the first enlisted nurse from thatState, under James Yeatman, president of the Sani-tary Commission. I was assigned to duty at the Good SamaritanHospital, where I cared for the brave boys, to thebest of my ability, until I was sent to fronton, Mo.,in 1862. From thei-e I went to Ilai-vey Hos
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