. 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 . ow, amid nnseen perils of the enemy, nnder tireupon the field, or in the more insidious dangers of con-tagion, she worked quietly on, doing her simple partwith all womanly tact and skill, until now the hospi-tal dress is laid aside, and she rests, with the senseof a noble work done, with the blessing and prayersof hundreds whose sufferings she has relieved orwhose lives she has saved, being, In the great history of the h
. 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 . ow, amid nnseen perils of the enemy, nnder tireupon the field, or in the more insidious dangers of con-tagion, she worked quietly on, doing her simple partwith all womanly tact and skill, until now the hospi-tal dress is laid aside, and she rests, with the senseof a noble work done, with the blessing and prayersof hundreds whose sufferings she has relieved orwhose lives she has saved, being, In the great history of the hind,A noble type of goodHeroic womanhood. From City Point she went to a hospital at Rich-mond, after the evacuation, and remained untilJune, 18G5. During the following years, she spent some monthsin Richmond, working among the colored and whiteschools, but with declining health she returned toMassachusetts, and died in April, 1868, and wasburied in AVoodlawn Cemetery, Chelsea. A beauti-ful monument with an appropriate inscrij^tion waserected over her grave by the soldiers, which isdecorated each year liy Grand Army Posts andWomens Relief C<jrps. OUR ARMY NURSES. 545. < Ul 546 OUR ARMY NURSES.
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