. JONES. _By Horatio G. Jones, Esq._
Miss Jones' birth and lineage--She aids in equipping the companies
of Union soldiers organized in her own neighborhood--Her services in
the Filbert Street Hospital--Death of her brother--Visit to Fortress
Monroe--She determines to go to the front and attaches herself to the
Third Division, Second Corps, Hospital at City Point--Has an attack
of Pleurisy--On her recovery resumes her labors--Is again attacked
and dies on the 21st of December, 1864--Her happy death--Mourning of
the convalescent soldiers of the Filbert Street Hospital over her
death. 783-786
FINAL CHAPTER
THE FAITHFUL BUT LESS CONSPICUOUS LABORERS.
The many necessarily unnamed--Ladies who served at Antietam, Point
Lookout, City Point or Naval Academy Hospital, Annapolis--The faithful
workers at Benton Barracks Hospital, St. Louis--Miss Lovell, Miss
Bissell, Mrs. Tannehill, Mrs. R. S. Smith, Mrs. Gray, Miss Lane, Miss
Adams, Miss Spaulding, Miss King, Mrs. Day--Other nurses of great merit
appointed by the Western Sanitary Commission--Volunteer visitors in the
St. Louis Hospitals--Ladies who ministered to the soldiers in Quincy,
and in Springfield, Illinois--Miss Georgiana Willets, Misses Molineux
and McCabe--Ladies of Cincinnati who served in the hospitals--Mrs. C. J.
Wright, Mrs. Starbuck, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Woods and Mrs. Caldwell--Miss
E. L. Porter of Niagara Falls--Boston ladies--Mrs. and Miss Anna Lowell,
Mrs. O. W. Holmes, Miss Stevenson, Mrs. S. Loring, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs.
Brimmer, Miss Rogers, Miss Felton--Louisville, Ky.--Mrs. Bishop Smith
and Mrs. Menefee--Columbus, Ohio--Mrs. Hoyle, Mrs. Ide, Miss Swayne--
Mrs. Seward of Utica--Mrs. Cowen, of Hartford, Conn.--Miss Long, of
Rochester--Mrs. Farr, of Norwalk, Ohio--Miss Bartlett, of the Soldiers'
Aid Society, Peoria, Ill.--Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Comstock, of Michigan,
Mrs. Dame, of Wisconsin--Miss Bucklin, of Auburn, N. Y.--Miss Louise M.
Alcott, of Concord, Mass.--Miss Penfield, of Michigan--The Misses
Rexford of Illinois--Miss Sophia Knight, of South Reading, Mass., a
faithful laborer among the Freedmen. 787-794
INDEX OF NAMES OF LADIES. 795-800
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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1.--MISS CLARA H. BARTON FRONTISPIECE.
2.--BARBARA FRIETCHIE VIGNETTE TITLE.
3.--MRS.
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