t special mention for their extraordinary faithfulness
and assiduity in the service; Miss Emily E. Parsons, the able lady
superintendent of the Benton Barracks Hospital, gives her testimony to
the efficiency and excellent spirit of the following ladies; Miss S. R.
Lovell, of Galesburg, Michigan, whose labors began in the hospitals near
Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1864 was transferred to Benton Barracks,
but was almost immediately prostrated by illness, and after her recovery
returned to the Tennessee hospitals. Her gentle sympathizing manners,
and her kindness to the soldiers won for her their regard and gratitude.

Miss Lucy J. Bissell, of Meremec, St. Louis County, Mo., offered her
services as volunteer nurse as soon as the call for nurses in 1861, was
issued; and was first sent to one of the regimental hospitals at Cairo,
in July, 1861, afterward to Bird's Point, where she lived in a tent and
subsisted on the soldiers' rations, for more than a year. After a short
visit home she was sent in January, 1863, by the Sanitary Commission to
Paducah, Ky., where she remained till the following October. In
February, 1864, she was assigned to Benton Barracks Hospital where she
continued till June 1st, 1864, except a short sickness contracted by
hospital service. In July, 1864, she was transferred to Jefferson
Barracks Hospital and continued there till June, 1865, and that
hospital being closed, served a month or two longer, in one of the
others, in which some sick and wounded soldiers were still left. Many
hundreds of the soldiers will testify to her untiring assiduity in
caring for them.

Mrs. Arabella Tannehill, of Iowa, after many months of assiduous work at
the Benton Barracks Hospital, went to the Nashville hospitals, where she
performed excellent service, being a most conscientious and faithful
nurse, and winning the regard and esteem of all those under her charge.

Mrs. Rebecca S. Smith, of Chelsea, Ill., the wife of a soldier in the
army, had acquitted herself so admirably at the Post Hospital of Benton
Barracks, that one of the surgeons of the General Hospital, who had
formerly been surgeon of the Post, requested Miss Parsons to procure her
services for his ward. She did so, and found her a most excellent and
skillful nurse.

Mrs. Caroline E. Gray, of Illinois, had also a husband in the army; she
was a long time at Benton Barracks and was one of the best nurses there,
an estimable woman in every respect.

Miss Ad