. 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 . SARAH K. CLARK, ARMY NURSE. Winona, Minn. 238 OUR ARMY JANE E. DUNBAR. JSERYED in a hospital on an island in ^ewYork Harbor about four months. Mr. Churchwas the steward, and Doctor Smith the surgeonin charge. I had received a letter from thesteward saying that my husband was very sick, andin response to my inquiry received a dispatch to goat once. I reached the hospital the first of August,1864, and as there wer
. 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 . SARAH K. CLARK, ARMY NURSE. Winona, Minn. 238 OUR ARMY JANE E. DUNBAR. JSERYED in a hospital on an island in ^ewYork Harbor about four months. Mr. Churchwas the steward, and Doctor Smith the surgeonin charge. I had received a letter from thesteward saying that my husband was very sick, andin response to my inquiry received a dispatch to goat once. I reached the hospital the first of August,1864, and as there were about eight hundred soldiersthere I found plenty of work to do. When I hadbeen there about a month the surgeon requested meto cook the extra diet for the sickest men, and I con-tinued that work three months. The woman who didit before I went there had forty dollars a month. Iwas not paid, and I boarded myself until my moneygave out, then I drew rations with the rest. I thinkI never worked so hard in my life. At length the hospital was needed for the citypoor, so the soldiers were removed to McDougalHospital; and as I was not needed there, I re-turned to my home. This was in December; so when I applied for apension I found that I
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