. 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 . ^ service, going from ward to wardwhere there was the most to be returned to Boston in January, 1864. Lauraetta C. Balch. Lowell, Mass. 27G OUR ARMY MARY A. ELLIS. J ASSISTED my husband to raise a regiment, the1st Missouri Vohmteer Cavahy, of which hewas made colonel, with the understanding thatI should accompany him to the field, which Idid; going in my own carriage, and taking with mea colored man and w
. 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 . ^ service, going from ward to wardwhere there was the most to be returned to Boston in January, 1864. Lauraetta C. Balch. Lowell, Mass. 27G OUR ARMY MARY A. ELLIS. J ASSISTED my husband to raise a regiment, the1st Missouri Vohmteer Cavahy, of which hewas made colonel, with the understanding thatI should accompany him to the field, which Idid; going in my own carriage, and taking with mea colored man and woman. I carried my own tent,and everything I needed, so that I was no expense tothe Government. The regiment went into camp at St. Louis the 1stof August, 1861. Soon the measles broke out, andI began my services as nurse there, and continuedthem until after the battle of Pea Ridge, March,1862. In camp, on the march, or in the hospital,—when we had one,—there was no part of the work ofa nurse that I did not do, even to assisting in sur-gical operations, particularly at the battle of PeaRidge, where I stood at the surgeons table, not oneor two, but many hours, with the hot blood steaminginto my face, until nature rebelled against suchhorrible sights and I fainted, but as soon as possibleI returned. Our regiment was in the cavalr
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