spiritual condition, and
in pointing them affectionately to the atoning Sacrifice for sin.

In these works of mercy and piety she was ably seconded by her cousin,
Miss Hattie S. Reifsnyder, of Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa., a lady of
very similar spirit and tact, who was with her for about eight months;
and subsequently by Mrs. Cynthia Case, of Newark, Ohio, who succeeded
Miss Reifsnyder, and entered into her work in the same thorough
Christian spirit.

Miss W. F. HARRIS is a native, and was previous to the war, a resident
of Providence, Rhode Island. She was a faithful worker through the whole
war, literally wearing herself out in the service. She commenced her
work at the Indiana Hospital, in the Patent Office, Washington, in the
spring of 1862. After the closing of that hospital, she transferred her
service to Ascension Church Hospital, and subsequently early in 1863, to
the Carver Hospital, both in Washington, where she labored with great
assiduity and faithfulness. Early in May, 1864, she was appointed to
service on the Transport Connecticut, where she was indefatigable in her
service, and manifested the same tender spirit, and the same skill and
tact, as Miss Sharpless. Of less vigorous constitution than her
associates, she was frequently a severe sufferer from her over
exertions. In the summer of 1864, she was transferred to the Hospital at
Harper's Ferry, and at that hospital and at Winchester continued her
service faithfully, though amid much pain and weariness, to the close of
the war. Though her health was much shattered by her labors she could
not rest, and has devoted herself to the instruction and training of the
Freedmen from that time to the present. A gentleman who was associated
with her in her service in the Carver Hospital and afterward on the
Transport Connecticut, says of her: "I know of no more pure-minded,
unselfish and earnest laborer among all the Women of the war that came
under my notice."

PART VI.

LADIES DISTINGUISHED FOR OTHER SERVICES IN THE NATIONAL CAUSE.

[Illustration: ANNIE ETHERIDGE.
H.L. Stephens, Del. John Sartain, Sc.]

MRS. ANNIE ETHERIDGE

No woman attached to a regiment, as _vivandiere_, _cantiniere_, or
_fille du regiment_ (we use the French terms because we have no English
ones which fully correspond to them), during the recent war, has won so
high and pure a renown as Annie Etheridge. Placed in circumstances of
peculiar moral peril, her goodne