. 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 . M ^. M. ALICE FRUSH. fHE^ the war broke out I was living in a littletown called Grcencastle, about eleven milesfrom Chanibersburg-, Penn. My father was=^^- a great Union man, and threw our houseopen as headquarters for the officers. The generalsquartered there were Dana, Smith, and Fitshugh,and they had their staffs. We did all we could forthe comfort of the soldiers, and when the call camefor nurses, I was one to volunt
. 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 . M ^. M. ALICE FRUSH. fHE^ the war broke out I was living in a littletown called Grcencastle, about eleven milesfrom Chanibersburg-, Penn. My father was=^^- a great Union man, and threw our houseopen as headquarters for the officers. The generalsquartered there were Dana, Smith, and Fitshugh,and they had their staffs. We did all we could forthe comfort of the soldiers, and when the call camefor nurses, I was one to volunteer. I served threeyears; first in the hospital at Hagerstown, Md., thenat Greencastle. I left to become the wife of L. Frush, of Company B, 6th Yirginia Cavalry. During my hospital service I was on the battle-fields of Antietam and Gettysburg, after the fight,helping the wounded and caring for the dying. Mau}^of the injured men were carried to our little town ofGreencastle, and we sisters did what we could forthem, picking lint, knitting stockings, etc. I was thenMary Alice Smith, and but eighteen jenvs of age. Iserved under Gen. David Detrich, in Greencastle, but
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