. Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice . , order soon came out of confusi(;n, andan abundance of suitable and well-cooked food was sup-plied to all the wards in the hospital. This was not abated during the month of June, afterwhich Chattanooga was of less importance as a liospitalcentre. Then ]\liss Shelton went to Nashville, and co-operated with her sister in laljors for the patients inHospital No. 1 and Hospital No. 14. An account ofthese labors, and some very touching and tragical inci-dents that occurred there, will be found in the narrativeand hospital sketches of Miss Mary
. Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice . , order soon came out of confusi(;n, andan abundance of suitable and well-cooked food was sup-plied to all the wards in the hospital. This was not abated during the month of June, afterwhich Chattanooga was of less importance as a liospitalcentre. Then ]\liss Shelton went to Nashville, and co-operated with her sister in laljors for the patients inHospital No. 1 and Hospital No. 14. An account ofthese labors, and some very touching and tragical inci-dents that occurred there, will be found in the narrativeand hospital sketches of Miss Mary E. Shelton. These sisters continued their labors at Nashville, andafterwards at Wilmington, for months after the war ended,endeavoring to restore again to useful activity and cheer-fulness the patriots who, during the last year of theterrible Avarfare, had made such vast sacrifices of theirown health and life, to give vigor, unity, and permanenceto the .life of the nation. TH^ !^E^ ^OK^ PUBUG UBBN^^ LF- :,NOX AND. MISS GEORGIANA WILLETS. THIS accomplished and lovely young woman was oneof that large number who for many months were keptback from servuig their country in the military hospitalsand on the battle-field by a misconception of the duties thatnurses had to perform. ^ As soon, however, as it was apparent to her and herfriends that very effective and important services could berendered without the compromise of either delicacy ordignity, she entered heart and soul into the work. Leaving her home at Jersey City in the spring of 1864,she repaired to Washington, holding herself in readiness torespond to any call that might be made for hospital in May, Grant moved his powerful army across theRapidan, and struck the first of those giant blows underwhich the Confederacy at length reeled to its clownMl. With this campaign was inaugurated in Virginia hispeculiar mode of warfare, which consists in following upone battle Avith another, and this by a forced march, givingt
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