. 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 . ELIZABETH J. DUDLEY, ARMV NURSE. Chicopee, Mass. 190 OUR ARMY SUSAN M. BABCOCK. in the United States service , 18G1, as a narse under Miss Dix, who wasthe General Superintendent, and was orderedto the front at Bell Plain, to cany suppliesand attend the sick and wounded. Then I returnedto Washington, and was ordered to the GeorgetownHospital. From there I went to Fortress Monroe,Va., under order o
. 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 . ELIZABETH J. DUDLEY, ARMV NURSE. Chicopee, Mass. 190 OUR ARMY SUSAN M. BABCOCK. in the United States service , 18G1, as a narse under Miss Dix, who wasthe General Superintendent, and was orderedto the front at Bell Plain, to cany suppliesand attend the sick and wounded. Then I returnedto Washington, and was ordered to the GeorgetownHospital. From there I went to Fortress Monroe,Va., under order of Miss Dix, and remained aboutthree months; then returned to Washington, andwas assigned to Stone Hospital, where I remainedsix months. Then went to Columbia Hospital,where I stayed a year. After that I went to Hare-wood Hospital for al)out eight months. The firstyear I served without compensation. In all, Iworked about four years; then was married, inJanuary, 1864. I am eighty-three years old, and although mygeneral healtli is as good as could be expected forone of my years, my memory is somewhat impaired;80 if I were to attempt to Avrite an outline of myexperiences, I shoukl not do it truly, Susan M. Babcock. Smithville, N
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