. 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 . a change for the better. He could swallow,and his pulse was quite perceptible. Finally itbeat as quick as I wanted to feel it. After mid-night I became quite faint; I had not eaten. I couldnot stop for supper. I called the best nurse on theboat to relieve me. I went to my quarters, but couldnot undress. I unfastened my shoes, then fell into 130 OUR ARMY NURSES. a faint, or dead sleep. Did not awake until the suncalled m
. 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 . a change for the better. He could swallow,and his pulse was quite perceptible. Finally itbeat as quick as I wanted to feel it. After mid-night I became quite faint; I had not eaten. I couldnot stop for supper. I called the best nurse on theboat to relieve me. I went to my quarters, but couldnot undress. I unfastened my shoes, then fell into 130 OUR ARMY NURSES. a faint, or dead sleep. Did not awake until the suncalled me, shining through the slats of my door. Iwent to my patient. He looked up and smiled. Thedoctor soon came along, and said, Why, aint he deadyet? The sick man whispered, She, pointing tome. The doctor asked me what I had done. I said, I attended to him as though he were my own, and inour own home. I asked if I could have him in myward. He said, Yes; you deserve to have he got to St. Louis he walked the length ofthe boat between two men, shook hands with me,and said: God bless you always. You have savedme to my wife and five children. Mrs. Euth Helena ELIZABETH S. WARD. J LEFT my home in South Bristol, Wis., Septem-ber 22, 1864, for Louisville, Ky. My firstperiod of service was in Foundry TransferHospital of that place, under Surgeons Prescottand Phelps; where I remained until January 28,1865, when I left under orders for ^Nashville, was the first woman in charge of the light DietKitchen in Wilson Colored Hospital, and served thereunder Surgeon Kussell, until I was taken danger-ously ill with typhoid fever about the 25th of March,from which I recovered sufficiently to be removed byeasy stages to my home the last of May, 1865. My period of service was short, when comparedwith that of many who entered in the earlier years ofthe war; but I was too young at that time to beaccepted, yet I feel very grateful that I was enabled,even in so short a time, to rel
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