Woman's work in the civil war : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience / by L.P. Brockett and Mary C. Vaughan, with an introduction by Henry W. Bellows.

  • Linus Pierpont Brockett
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Woman's work in the civil war : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience / by L.P. Brockett and Mary C. Vaughan, with an introduction by Henry W. Bellows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Margaret ELIZABETH Breckinridge. By Mrs. J. G. Forman. PAGH Sketch of her personal appearance—Her gentle, tender, winning ways—The American Florence Nightingale—What if I do die?—The Breckinridge family—Margaret’s childhood and youth—Her emancipation of her slaves—Working for the soldiers early in the war—Not one of the Home Guards—Her earnest desire to labor in the hospitals—Hospital service at Baltimore—At Lexington, Kentucky—Morgan’s first raid—Her visit to the wounded sol- diers—“ Every one of you bring a regiment with you”—Visiting the St. Louis hospitals— On the hospital boats on the Mississippi—Perils of the voyage—Severe and incessant labor— The contrabands at Helena—Touching incidents of the wounded on the hospital boats— “ The service pays”—In the hospitals at St. Louis—Impaired health—She goes eastward for rest and recovery—A year of weakness and weariness—In the hospital at Philadelphia—A ministering angel—Colonel Porter her brother-in-law killed at Cold Harbor—She goes to Baltimore to meet the body—Is seized with typhoid fever and dies after five weeks illness 187-1&9 MRS. STEPHEN BARKER. Family of Mrs. Barker—Her husband Chaplain of First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery—She accompanies him to Washington—Devotes herself to the work of visiting the hospitals— Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital—She removes to Fort Albany and takes charge as Matron of the Regimental Hospital—Pleasant experiences—Reading to the soldiers—Two years of labor—Return to Washington in January, 1864—She becomes one of the hospital visitors of the Sanitary Commission—Ten hospitals a week—Remitting the soldiers’ money and valuables to their families—The service of Mr. and Mrs. Barker as lecturers and mis- sionaries of the Sanitary Commission to the Aid Societies in the smaller cities and villages— The distribution of supplies to the disbanding armies—Her report 200-211 AMY M. BRADLEY. Childhood of Miss Bradley—Her experiences as a teacher—Residence in Charleston, South Carolina—Two years of illness—Goes to Costa Rica—Three years of teaching in Central America—Return to the United States—Becomes corresponding clerk and translator in a large glass manufactory—Beginning of the war—She determines to go as a nurse—Writes to Dr. Palmer—His quaint reply—Her first experience as nurse in a regimental hospital— Skill and tact in managing it—Promoted by General Slocum to the charge of the Brigade Hospital—Hospital Transport Service—Over-exertion and need of rest—The organization of the Soldiers’ Home at Washington—Visiting hospitals at her leisure—Camp Misery— Wretched condition of the men—The rendezvous of distribution—Miss Bradley goes thither as Sanitary Commission Agent—Her zealous and multifarious labors—Bringing in the dis- charged men for their papers—Procuring the correction of their papers, and the reinstate- ment of the men—“ The Soldiers’ Journal”—Miss Bradley’s object in its establishment—Its success—Presents to Miss Bradley—Personal appearance 212-224 MRS. ARABELLA GRIFFITH BARLOW. Birth and education of Mrs. Griffith—Her marriage at the beginning of the war—She accompa- nies her husband to the camp, and wherever it is possible ministers to the wounded or sick soldiers—Joins the Sanitary Commission in July, 1862, and labors among the sick and wounded at Harrison’s Landing till late in August—Colonel Barlow severely wounded at Antiotam Mrs. Barlow nurses him with great tenderness, and at the same time ministers
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