. 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 . entwo and three hundred rebel prisoners encamped inan open field a short distance from the were many boys not more than twelve orfifteen years old among them. So as the sickfrom this camp were brought to our hospital, itchanced that one little fellow, not more than four-teen, sick with typhoid fever, came under my was delirious, and called piteously for his mother;so his nurse called me, and as I
. 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 . entwo and three hundred rebel prisoners encamped inan open field a short distance from the were many boys not more than twelve orfifteen years old among them. So as the sickfrom this camp were brought to our hospital, itchanced that one little fellow, not more than four-teen, sick with typhoid fever, came under my was delirious, and called piteously for his mother;so his nurse called me, and as I sat by his side heopened his eyes and exclaimed, Mother! thenthrew his arms around my neck. I soothed hisfew last hours, and allowed him to think that Iwas his mother. And thus such incidents mightbe multiplied. Only those who have had experience in the hospi-tal, or prison, or on the battlefield, can realize howbarbarous and cruel a thing is war. With theincrease of liberal thought, and the broader viewof the value and responsibility of life, war betweencivilized peoples should be well-nigh we never have another! is my earnestprayer. Mks. Helen E. MOTHER RANSOM, OF INDIANA. THE SINKING SHIP, **1Flortb Hmerfca. J HAD been appointed aid to our physician, , in charge of a large number ofsick soldiers, who were to be transported totheir homes or to ]^^orthern hospitals. In mak-ing preparations I came to a poor fellow whose wan,appealing face touched a tender cord of my being, andI said, Are you going to start Korth to-night?He turned wearily, and said, I fear I am too weakto endure the voyage, unless there were some one onwhom I could depend. I said, I may go. Oh!then I will venture, his face beaming with preparations were all made, and we sailed inthe Government transport N^orth America, com-manded by Captain Marshman, of Philadelphia. Westarted on the evening of December 16, 1864, at sixoclock. The ship was manned by forty-four me
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