. 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 . MARY E. MOORE. J WAS a])pointcd hospital matron by ColonelSmith, of the 58th Regiment, Illinois Volun-teers, in l^ovember, 1861, at Camp Douglas,Chicago, and served there until some time inFebruary, when our regiment left for Cairo, 111.; thenwent to Fort Donaldson, Tenn., where I helped tocare for the sick and wonnded during the battle, andafterwards on a hospital steamer. I next accom-panied a party of soldiers to Cair
. 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 . MARY E. MOORE. J WAS a])pointcd hospital matron by ColonelSmith, of the 58th Regiment, Illinois Volun-teers, in l^ovember, 1861, at Camp Douglas,Chicago, and served there until some time inFebruary, when our regiment left for Cairo, 111.; thenwent to Fort Donaldson, Tenn., where I helped tocare for the sick and wonnded during the battle, andafterwards on a hospital steamer. I next accom-panied a party of soldiers to Cairo, where I cared forthem until all but one were able to leave the at Fort Donaldson I have sometimes gonetwo or three days without any sleep, and with onlyan occasional cup of coiFee or some hard-tack, which Iwould eat as I Avent in and out among the sick. Atone time all the sleep I had for three nights wason the bare floor, between my husband and a sicksoldier, and with my husbands arm for a pillow. ^o one but the poor boys themselves can imagineas we nuises can what suffering they had to endureduring the Kebellion. I recall one poor old coloredman who
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