nifestation--Paeans for victory--Lamentations
for the death of a heroic leader--Personal leadership by women--The
assassination of tyrants--The care of the sick and wounded of national
armies--The hospitals established by the Empress Helena--The Beguines
and their successors--The cantinieres, vivandieres, etc.--Other modes in
which women manifested their patriotism--Florence Nightingale and her
labors--The results--The awakening of patriotic zeal among American
women at the opening of the war--The organization of philanthropic
effort--Hospital nurses--Miss Dix's rejection of great numbers of
applicants on account of youth--Hired nurses--Their services generally
prompted by patriotism rather than pay--The State relief agents
(ladies) at Washington--The hospital transport system of the Sanitary
Commission--Mrs. Harris's, Miss Barton's, Mrs. Fales', Miss Gilson's,
and other ladles' services at the front during the battles of 1862--
Services of other ladies at Chancellorsville, at Gettysburg--The
Field Relief of the Sanitary Commission, and services of ladies in the
later battles--Voluntary services of women in the armies in the field at
the West--Services in the hospitals of garrisons and fortified towns--
Soldiers' homes and lodges, and their matrons--Homes for Refugees--
Instruction of the Freedmen--Refreshment Saloons at Philadelphia--
Regular visiting of hospitals in the large cities--The Soldiers' Aid
Societies, and their mode of operation--The extraordinary labors of the
managers of the Branch Societies--Government clothing contracts--Mrs.
Springer, Miss Wormeley and Miss Gilson--The managers of the local
Soldiers' Aid Societies--The sacrifices made by the poor to contribute
supplies--Examples--The labors of the young and the old--Inscriptions
on articles--The poor seamstress--Five hundred bushels of wheat--The
five dollar gold piece--The army of martyrs--The effect of this
female patriotism in stimulating the courage of the soldiers--Lack of
persistence in this work among the Women of the South--Present and
future--Effect of patriotism and self-sacrifice in elevating and
ennobling the female character. 65-94

PART I. SUPERINTENDENT OF NURSES.

MISS DOROTHEA L. DIX.

Early history--Becomes interested in the condition of prison convicts--
Visit to Europe--Returns in 1837, and devotes herself to improving the
condition of paupers, lunatics and prisoners--Her efforts for the
estab