. 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 . t day I went to Washington with the sickmen, but could not procure furloughs. Then Ireturned to my twenty-two boys in Ward 11. OUR ARMY NURSES. 451 They were very glad to see me, and liegged menot to go away again. They said it was lonesome,and no one tokl them any news. I remained thereuntil December, 18G2. Ah, how many sad things hapjiened! One night at six oclock I left one of my boys everso much better than he had be
. 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 . t day I went to Washington with the sickmen, but could not procure furloughs. Then Ireturned to my twenty-two boys in Ward 11. OUR ARMY NURSES. 451 They were very glad to see me, and liegged menot to go away again. They said it was lonesome,and no one tokl them any news. I remained thereuntil December, 18G2. Ah, how many sad things hapjiened! One night at six oclock I left one of my boys everso much better than he had been. The next morn-ing a man met me with the news that Willie wasdead. I went to the dead-house to see him. Adoctor was theie, who told me the l)oy was poi-soned. A soldier in the ward said that a womancame in with chocolate, and that Willie drank acupful, but none of the rest would. I felt verybadly. That was the only death \\\ my ward. I nursed the soldiers carefully, cheered them nilI could, and would see that they had plenty of goodfood, even if I had to jnit my hand in my ownpocket to pay for it. Elizabeth A. Hyatt. NoKTuviLLE, Wayne Co., Mich. 452 OUR ARMY KATE M. DUNCAN. J SERVED one year at Patterson Park Hospital,Baltimore, Md., beginning in September, husband was wonnded in tlie neck and wenthome. He was sick eighteen months; then Iwent with him wlien he returned to duty. The firstsix weeks I nnrsed in Ward 15. They had seventymen,—the worst cases of typhoid fever. I sat upevery other night, gave medicine, washed and fedthe patients, etc. Doctor Knowles did not hkewomen, and ahhough the surgeon in charge putme there, he did not use me very well for a he soon trusted me to give medicine and see toeverything, and made me sit up nights, because hewould not trust the male nurses. This was too hardfor me, and the surgeon changed me to Ward 1 ofsnrgical cases. Autand was the name of the Frenchsurgeon who had charge of that ward. His Avatch-chain w
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