. 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 . uld hold. He and his crew didall they could do in their cramped condition to carefor so many. Fortunately for us and the Libby asteamer from Hilton Head, bound for Kew Yorlv,overtook us on the morning of the 30th, and con-veyed us to !New York, arri^ ing in the night. Doctor McClintock sent me to the State SanitaryCommission, and as soon as they kncAV of the terribledisaster I had passed through, they presented mewith fi
. 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 . uld hold. He and his crew didall they could do in their cramped condition to carefor so many. Fortunately for us and the Libby asteamer from Hilton Head, bound for Kew Yorlv,overtook us on the morning of the 30th, and con-veyed us to !New York, arri^ ing in the night. Doctor McClintock sent me to the State SanitaryCommission, and as soon as they kncAV of the terribledisaster I had passed through, they presented mewith fifty dollars and took me to the New EnglandRooms, a temporary hospital, where I was cared foras if I had been a princess. For wxeks this terriblescene was kept fresh in my mind by one and anotherinquiring for friends. It was almost beyond mypower of endurance to recount that heart-rending-scene. Our dear soldiei-s on that sinking ship; onehundred and ninety-four went down w ith her! ^ Shall we meet beyond the river,Where the surges cease to roll?Where, in all the bright forever, Sorrow neer shall press the soul ? Mother Raxsom, of Ik^dia:n^a. 516 OUR ARMY NURSES. tH^ WK. MRS. M. A. BICKERDYKE. J SERVED ill our great Civil War fi-om June9, 1861, to March 20, 1865. I did the Avorkof one, and tried to do it well. I was mnineteen hard-fought battles, in the depart-ments of the Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberlandarmies. Fort Donelson, February 15th and 16th,was the first battle to which I was eye-witness;Pittsburg Landing, April 6th and 7th, the second;luka, September 20th, the third; and Corinth, Octo-ber 3d and 4th, the fourth. In January, 1863, we went fi-om Corinth to Mem-phis, and from January to October, 1863, passed63,800 men through our hospitals. During the siege of Yicksburg I made severaltrips from that city with wounded soldiers to theMemphis hospitals. On the 2Tth of October I received orders to reportat Chattanooga, and arrived in time to see the battleof Lookout Mountain,
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