f you bring a regiment with you"--Visiting
the St. Louis hospitals--On the hospital boats on the Mississippi--
Perils of the voyage--Severe and incessant labor--The contrabands at
Helena--Touching incidents of the wounded on the hospital boats--"The
service pays"--In the hospitals at St. Louis--Impaired health--She goes
eastward for rest and recovery--A year of weakness and weariness--In
the hospital at Philadelphia--A ministering angel--Colonel Porter
her brother-in-law killed at Cold Harbor--She goes to Baltimore to
meet the body--Is seized with typhoid fever and dies after five weeks
illness. 187-199

MRS. STEPHEN BARKER.

Family of Mrs. Barker--Her husband Chaplain of First Massachusetts Heavy
Artillery--She accompanies him to Washington--Devotes herself to the
work of visiting the hospitals--Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital--She
removes to Fort Albany and takes charge as Matron of the Regimental
Hospital--Pleasant experiences--Reading to the soldiers--Two years of
labor--Return to Washington in January, 1864--She becomes one of the
hospital visitors of the Sanitary Commission--Ten hospitals a week--
Remitting the soldiers' money and valuables to their families--The
service of Mr. and Mrs. Barker as lecturers and missionaries of the
Sanitary Commission to the Aid Societies in the smaller cities and
villages--The distribution of supplies to the disbanding armies--Her
report. 200-211

AMY M. BRADLEY.

Childhood of Miss Bradley--Her experiences as a teacher--Residence in
Charleston, South Carolina--Two years of illness--Goes to Costa Rica--
Three years of teaching in Central America--Return to the United
States--Becomes corresponding clerk and translator in a large glass
manufactory--Beginning of the war--She determines to go as a nurse--
Writes to Dr. Palmer--His quaint reply--Her first experience as nurse
in a regimental hospital--Skill and tact in managing it--Promoted by
General Slocum to the charge of the Brigade Hospital--Hospital Transport
Service--Over-exertion and need of rest--The organization of the
Soldiers' Home at Washington--Visiting hospitals at her leisure--Camp
Misery--Wretched condition of the men--The rendezvous of distribution--
Miss Bradley goes thither as Sanitary Commission Agent--Her zealous and
multifarious labors--Bringing in the discharged men for their papers--
Procuri