eline A. Lane, of Quincy, Ill., a teacher before the war, came to
Benton Barracks Hospital in the Spring of 1863, and after a service of
many months there, returned to her home at Quincy, where she devoted her
attention to the care of the sick and wounded soldiers sent there, and
accomplished great good.

Miss Martha Adams, of New York city, was long employed in the Fort
Schuyler Hospital and subsequently at Benton Barracks, and was a woman
of rare devotion to her work.

Miss Jennie Tileston Spaulding, of Roxbury, Mass., was for a long period
at Fort Schuyler Hospital, where she was much esteemed, and after her
return home busied herself in caring for the families of soldiers around
her.

Miss E. M. King, of Omaha, Nebraska, was a very faithful and excellent
nurse at the Benton Barracks Hospital.

Mrs. Juliana Day, the wife of a surgeon in one of the Nashville
hospitals, acted as a volunteer nurse for them, and by her protracted
services there impaired her health and died before the close of the war.

Other efficient nurses appointed by the Western Sanitary Commission (and
there were none more efficient anywhere) were, Miss Carrie C. McNair,
Miss N. A. Shepard, Miss C. A. Harwood, Miss Rebecca M. Craighead, Miss
Ida Johnson, Mrs. Dorothea Ogden, Miss Harriet N. Phillips, Mrs. A.
Reese, Mrs. Maria Brooks, Mrs. Mary Otis, Miss Harriet Peabody, Mrs. M.
A. Wells, Mrs. Florence P. Sterling, Miss N. L. Ostram, Mrs. Anne Ward,
Miss Isabella M. Hartshorne, Mrs. Mary Ellis, Mrs. L. E. Lathrop, Miss
Louisa Otis, Mrs. Lydia Leach, Mrs. Mary Andrews, Mrs. Mary Ludlow, Mrs.
Hannah A. Haines and Mrs. Mary Allen. Most of these were from St. Louis
or its vicinity.

The following, also for the most part from St. Louis, were appointed
somewhat later by the Western Sanitary Commission, but rendered
excellent service. Mrs. M. I. Ballard, Mrs. E. O. Gibson, Mrs. L. D.
Aldrich, Mrs. Houghton, Mrs. Sarah A. Barton, Mrs. Olive Freeman, Mrs.
Anne M. Shattuck, Mrs. E. C. Brendell, Mrs. E. J. Morris, Miss Fanny
Marshall, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Nichols, Mrs. H. A. Reid, Mrs. Reese, Mrs.
M. A. Stetler, Mrs. M. J. Dykeman, Misses Marian and Clara McClintock,
Mrs. Sager, Mrs. Peabody, Mrs. C. C. Hagar, Mrs. J. E. Hickox, Mrs.
L. L. Campbell, Miss Deborah Dougherty and Mrs. Ferris.

As in other cities, many ladies of high social position, devoted
themselves with great assiduity to voluntary visiting and nursing at the
hospitals. Among these were Mr