. 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 . l state perfectly rational,and after taking some nourishment, asked me to praywith him. I did so, and read the fourteenth chapterof St. John, which I read to all my patients whowould listen to me. Then he talked about twohours, — using the most beautiful language aboutthe Bible and the glories of heaven. He certainlywas inspired. Everybody who could do so came tohear him. At last, addressing me, he said: Mother,dont you
. 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 . l state perfectly rational,and after taking some nourishment, asked me to praywith him. I did so, and read the fourteenth chapterof St. John, which I read to all my patients whowould listen to me. Then he talked about twohours, — using the most beautiful language aboutthe Bible and the glories of heaven. He certainlywas inspired. Everybody who could do so came tohear him. At last, addressing me, he said: Mother,dont you see the angels coming ? They are holdingout their hands to take me home. Then he droppedaway hke a child going to sleep. Just before the hospital closed five typhoid fevercases were brought to the ward. One died, and Icontracted the fever in its worst form; and althougheverything was done for me I barely escaped, andhave never been well since. I feel that my HeavenlyFather blessed me all through my work, and carriedme through my sickness. I was in the service a yearand a half, and have the honor of being brevetedmajor. Jaj^e M. Woerall. 9 Warren Place, Roxbury, FANNIE A. HARPER. JIN the winter of 1862 and 1863 I was called to thehospital at Le Seur, to see my husband, whowas seriously ill with erysipelas. The doctorshad given up hope, and no one expected to seehim out again; but I took care of him fiom that time,and he came out all right. There were twenty-four sick soldiers, and nowoman to nurse them; so I volunteered, for theywere sadly in need of some one. I remained aboutfive months, during which there were five sickness was mostly pneumonia and typhoidfever; one died of heart disease. The hospitalstewaid died on his w^ay home on a sick furlough,and was laid to rest in Mound City. I had a little son born in April, 1863. He wasbaptized by our chaplain, Ezra Lathrop. I went withthe command when it was ordered to Memphis,Tenn., where I entered the field ho
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