. 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 . four lady nurses were sentto us, and as soon as possible the wounded wereremoved. The sanitary stores were sent to Far-rington. We found twenty-two hundred wounded,and some fever cases; all were in tents. We stayeduntil September; then the patients were sent JN^orth,the hospital was broken up, and the supjDlies sent toCorinth. Three other nurses and myself were sent toJackson, where we remained until March, 1863. Then,al
. 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 . four lady nurses were sentto us, and as soon as possible the wounded wereremoved. The sanitary stores were sent to Far-rington. We found twenty-two hundred wounded,and some fever cases; all were in tents. We stayeduntil September; then the patients were sent JN^orth,the hospital was broken up, and the supjDlies sent toCorinth. Three other nurses and myself were sent toJackson, where we remained until March, 1863. Then,all patients haying been removed, the nurses, twenty-two in number, were ordered to report at Memphis,Tenn. From there we went to Washington. Allthis time I was a volunteer nurse, without pay. April 20, 1863, I received my commission fromMiss Dix. In January, 1864, I was ordered toreport to J. D. Erwin, Superintendent of U. Hospital of Memphis, Tenn. He sent meto the Small-Pox Hospital as matron. I i-emainedthere until October, 1866. When I volunteered, my name was Modenia R. McColl. Now it is Modenia R. Weston. Waveland, Hancock Co., Miss. 166 OUR ARMY MARIA W. ABBEY. f^N the third Sunday in April, 1861, at Ply-11 mouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., I heard Rev.^^ H. W. Beecher read a call for women asvolunteers to work in ISTew York for the goodof our soldiers; also a call for volunteers to go asnurses in the war. I responded at once, and was oneof a company of six ladies who left New York forthe seat of war the first day of May. We reachedBaltimore that evening, and Washington the nextday at 5 oclock p. m. We stopped at the Kirkwoodover two weeks; then received permission to go intothe Union Hospital at Georgetown, where we soonfound work enough to do. As yet there was no organization, and we foundit very difficult to do anything systematically; butwe were each obliged to do the best we could. The hospital began to fill after the first battle ofBull Run, and we h
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