. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . the hospitals were crowded withseverely wounded men. He followed up the foe solast it was blow upon blow. Every day the wounded>came, and every day men who could be moved withiafety, were sent to Baltimore or Philadelphia, to OUR ARMY NURSES. 85 make room for others. It was a common thing tocount forty amputation cases at a time, when lookingup and down the ward that summer, and so it con-tinued until the end of the
. Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65 . the hospitals were crowded withseverely wounded men. He followed up the foe solast it was blow upon blow. Every day the wounded>came, and every day men who could be moved withiafety, were sent to Baltimore or Philadelphia, to OUR ARMY NURSES. 85 make room for others. It was a common thing tocount forty amputation cases at a time, when lookingup and down the ward that summer, and so it con-tinued until the end of the war. After the hospital closed, Dr. Bliss advised MissHill to study medicine. Acting on this suggestion she began reading underDr. Marie Zakryewska, the Alma Mater of all ladyphysicians of Boston and vicinity. Afterwards shebecame a medical student at the Kew England Hos-pital for Women and Children, at Koxbury, was graduated at the medical department of theMichigan University, at Ann Arbor, in the year then came to Dubuque, Iowa, and opened anoffice, and has been in active practice of medicineever since. Her address is Dr. ^Nancy Hill, Dubuque, MARY A. LOOMIS. 5Y two and a half years of service during thewar I shall not soon forget. The privationsand sufferings of our brave and noble boyswill always linger in my the time the war broke out my home was inColdwater, Mich. I entered the service with myhusband sometime in May, 1861, as a volunteer nurse,and was not under authority of any one except thesurgeon. Later I was appointed matron of HospitalNo. 13, Nashville, Tenn., and remained there fromSeptember, 1862, until January, 1863. This hospitalwas in chai-ge of H. J. Herrick, , of the 17thRegiment Ohio Volunteers. I then went to ISTo. 20,]^ashville, and stayed until May, as matron underJ. R. Goodwin, , surgeon in charge. I was also in a hospital at Murfreesboio, Tenn., andat Huntsville, Ala. In all, I was in hospitals about a year; the
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