. 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 . crew,But, nevertheless, she is ready To work for the boys who heart may be larger and braver Than his who is tallest of all;The work of her hands as important As cash that buys powder and ball. * And thus, while her quiet perfoi-mance Is being recorded in rhyme,The tools in her tremulous fingers Are running a race with that four needles can form A perfect triangular bound ;And equally strange that th
. 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 . crew,But, nevertheless, she is ready To work for the boys who heart may be larger and braver Than his who is tallest of all;The work of her hands as important As cash that buys powder and ball. * And thus, while her quiet perfoi-mance Is being recorded in rhyme,The tools in her tremulous fingers Are running a race with that four needles can form A perfect triangular bound ;And equally strange that their antics Result in perfecting the round. * And now, while beginning to narrow, She thinks of the Maryland mud,And wonders if ever the stocking Will wade to the ankle in now she is shaping the heel, And now she is ready to bind,And hopes if the soldier is wounded, It never will be from behind. *And now she is raising the instep, Now narrowing off at the prays that this end of the worsted May ever be turned to the gathers the last of the stitches. As if a new laurel were won ;Now placing the ball in the basket. Announces the stockintj is / MRS. RUTH H. SINNOTTE. WAS commissioned by Mi-. Yeatman, in , as nurse at large, and sent on boardthe steamer Imj^erial, a hospital boat plying®^ between St. Louis and Pittsburg Landing; surgeon in charge, and Dr. Bixby assistant sur-geon. I remained on board the Imperial until theTennessee River had fallen so low the boat could go nofarther, and went out of the hospital service. I wasthen sent by the medical director on board the Ella,and remained on that boat until she went out of hos-pital service, and became a transport boat. Then Dr. Douglass, the medical director, sent meto Monterey, in Tennessee, the receiving hospital ofCorinth battlefield, in charge of Dr. Eaton; I thinkhe was from ^ew York. While there I was sun-struck, and on the third day was attacked with yellowjaundice. I then ob
Size: 1351px × 1849px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidourarmynurse, bookyear1897
