Rev. N. M. Mann._

The death of her husband, Governor Louis P. Harvey--Her intense grief--
She resolves to devote herself to the care of the sick and wounded
soldiers--She visits St. Louis as Agent for the State of Wisconsin--Work
in the St. Louis hospitals in the autumn of 1862--Heroic labors at Cape
Girardeau--Visiting hospitals along the Mississippi--The soldiers' ideas
of her influence and power--Young's Point in 1863--Illness of Mrs.
Harvey--She determines to secure the establishment of a General Hospital
at Madison, Wisconsin, where from the fine climate the chances of
recovery of the sick and wounded will be increased--Her resolution and
energy--The Harvey Hospital--The removal of the patients at Fort
Pickering to it--Repeated journeys down the Mississippi--Presented with
an elegant watch by the Second Wisconsin Cavalry--Her influence over the
soldiers--The Soldiers' Orphan Asylum at Madison. 260-268

MRS. SARAH R. JOHNSTON.

Loyal Southern women--Mrs. Johnston's birth and social position--Her
interest in the Union prisoners--"A Yankee sympathizer"--The young
soldier--Her tender care of him, living and dead--Work for the
prisoners--Her persecution by the rebels--"Why don't you pin me to the
earth as you threatened"--"Sergeant, you can't make anything on that
woman"--Copying the inscriptions on Union graves, and statistics of
Union prisoners--Her visit to the North. 269-272

EMILY E. PARSONS. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._

Her birth and education--Her preparation for service in the hospitals--
Receives instruction in the care of the sick, dressing wounds,
preparation of diet, etc.--Service at Fort Schuyler Hospital--Mrs.
General Fremont secures her services for St. Louis--Condition of St.
Louis and the other river cities at this time--First assigned to the
Lawson Hospital--Next to Hospital steamer "City of Alton"--The voyage
from Vicksburg to Memphis--Return to St. Louis--Illness--Appointed
Superintendent of Nurses to the large Benton Barracks Hospital--Her
duties--The admirable management of the hospital--Visit to the East--
Return to her work--Illness and return to the East--Collects and
forwards supplies to Western Sanitary Commission and Northwestern
Sanitary Commission--The Chicago Fair--The Charity Hospital at
Cambridge established by her--Her cheerfulness and skill in her
hospital work. 273-278

MRS. ALMIRA FALES