. 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 . barracks were a shelter for the sick and wounded,and that was about all. There were thirty-twowards, with fifty-two beds in each. Miss Williams,or Sister !N^ettie Williams, as we called her, was atthe head of the department. She was a Boston lady,who did good service, devoting time and money toour soldiers. I have regretted that I did not keep adiary, as I have forgotten many who I should beglad to remember. But t
. 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 . barracks were a shelter for the sick and wounded,and that was about all. There were thirty-twowards, with fifty-two beds in each. Miss Williams,or Sister !N^ettie Williams, as we called her, was atthe head of the department. She was a Boston lady,who did good service, devoting time and money toour soldiers. I have regretted that I did not keep adiary, as I have forgotten many who I should beglad to remember. But they were constantly comingand going, and those Avere busy times; still, I recallmany of the nurses, who were beautiful and devotedcharacters. As a rule my boys were a happy set of sufferers,more especially those who could get about on theircrutches; and in their efforts to be cheerful and helpothers pass the weary hour«, they often seemed toforget their own suffering. I remained in that hospital during the fifteenmonths of my service, going from ward to wardwhere there was the most to be done. I returned to Boston in January, 1864. Lauraetta C. Balch. Lowell, Mass. 275. MARY A. ELLIS. J ASSISTED my husband to raise a regiment, the1st Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, 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
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