. 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 . JANETTE MAXWELL MORRILL. J WAS commissioned by the colonel of the 6thReg-iment, Michigan Infantry, Aug. 28, 1861,and served in Baltimore, Maryland, nntil April,1862, when I was assigned by Miss Dix tothe Judiciary Square General Hospital, Washington,D. C. On account of severe illness, I left the ser-vice ]Srov. 1, 1863. Among the many amusing incidents of hospitallife was the case of a man nearly fifty years of age,who,
. 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 . JANETTE MAXWELL MORRILL. J WAS commissioned by the colonel of the 6thReg-iment, Michigan Infantry, Aug. 28, 1861,and served in Baltimore, Maryland, nntil April,1862, when I was assigned by Miss Dix tothe Judiciary Square General Hospital, Washington,D. C. On account of severe illness, I left the ser-vice ]Srov. 1, 1863. Among the many amusing incidents of hospitallife was the case of a man nearly fifty years of age,who, with half a regiment, was brought in sick withthe measles. I could not make him understand thenature of a contagious disease. He thought he wassick enough to die; and remembering my own experi-ence when I was a child, I did not much at last he comprehended that in order to takethe disease one must come in contact with some onewho has it, he wanted me to write to his wife imme-diately, and tell her to see that the children have themeasles, all but the baby. Why he made that excep-tion he would not say; but made me begin and endthe letter by telhng Eliza to h
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