lishment of Insane Asylums--Second visit to Europe--Her first
work in the war the nursing of Massachusetts soldiers in Baltimore--
Appointment as superintendent of nurses--Her selections--Difficulties in
her position--Her other duties--Mrs. Livermore's account of her labors--
The adjutant-general's order--Dr. Bellows' estimate of her work--Her
kindness to her nurses--Her publications--Her manners and address--
Labors for the insane poor since the war. 97-108

PART II. LADIES WHO MINISTERED TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED IN CAMP, FIELD
AND GENERAL HOSPITALS.

CLARA HARLOWE BARTON.

Early life--Teaching--The Bordentown school--Obtains a situation in the
Patent Office--Her readiness to help others--Her native genius for
nursing--Removed from office in 1857--Return to Washington in 1861--
Nursing and providing for Massachusetts soldiers at the Capitol in
April, 1861--Hospital and sanitary work in 1861--Death of her father--
Washington hospitals again--Going to the front--Cedar Mountain--The
second Bull Run battle--Chantilly--Heroic labors at Antietam--Soft
bread--Three barrels of flour and a bag of salt--Thirty lanterns for
that night of gloom--The race for Fredericksburg--Miss Barton as a
general purveyor for the sick and wounded--The battle of Fredericksburg--
Under fire--The rebel officer's appeal--The "confiscated" carpet--After
the battle--In the department of the South--The sands of Morris Island--
The horrors of the siege of Forts Wagner and Sumter--The reason why she
went thither--Return to the North--Preparations for the great campaign--
Her labors at Belle Plain, Fredericksburg, White House, and City Point--
Return to Washington--Appointed "General correspondent for the friends
of paroled prisoners"--Her residence at Annapolis--Obstacles--The
Annapolis plan abandoned--She establishes at Washington a "Bureau of
records of missing men in the armies of the United States"--The plan of
operations of this Bureau--Her visit to Andersonville--The case of
Dorrance Atwater--The Bureau of missing men an institution indispensable
to the Government and to friends of the soldiers--Her sacrifices in
maintaining it--The grant from Congress--Personal appearance of Miss
Barton. 111-132

HELEN LOUISE GILSON.

Early history--Her first work for the soldiers--Collecting supplies--
The clothing contract--Providing for soldiers' wives and daughters--
App