and Miss G. Woolsey--Taking on patients--"Butter on _soft_ bread"--
"Guess I can stand h'isting better'n _him_"--"Spare the darning
needles"--"Slippers only fit for pontoon bridges"--Visiting Government
Transports--Scrambling eggs in a wash-basin--Subduing the captain of a
tug--The battle of Fair Oaks--Bad management on Government Transports--
Sufferings of the wounded--Sanitary Commission relief tent at the
wharf--Relief tents at White House depot at Savage's Station--The
departure from White House--Arrival at Harrison's Landing--Running past
the rebel batteries at City Point--"I'll take those mattresses you spoke
of"--The wounded of the seven days' battles--"You are so kind, I--am so
weak"--Exchanging prisoners under flag of truce. 299-315

OTHER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE HOSPITAL TRANSPORT CORPS.

Miss Bradley, Miss Gilson, Mrs. Husband, Miss Charlotte Bradford, Mrs.
W. P. Griffin, Miss H. D. Whetten. 316, 317

KATHERINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY.

Birth and parentage--Commencement of her labors for the soldiers--The
Woman's Union Aid Society of Newport--She takes a contract for army
clothing to furnish employment for soldiers' families--Forwarding
sanitary goods--The hundred and fifty bed sacks--Miss Wormeley's
connection with the Hospital Transport Service--Her extraordinary
labors--Illness--Is appointed Lady Superintendent of the Lovell General
Hospital at Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island--Her duties--Resigns in
October, 1863--Her volume--"The United States Sanitary Commission"--
Other labors for the soldiers. 318-323

THE MISSES WOOLSEY.

Social position of the Woolsey sisters--Mrs. Joseph Howland and her
labors on the Hospital Transport--Her tender and skilful nursing of the
sick and wounded of her husband's regiment--Poem addressed to her by a
soldier--Her encouragement and assistance to the women nurses appointed
by Miss Dix--Mrs. Robert S. Howland--Her labors in the hospitals and at
the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair--Her early death from over-exertion in
connection with the fair--Her poetical contributions to the National
cause--"In the hospital"--Miss Georgiana M. Woolsey--Labors on Hospital
Transports--At Portsmouth Grove Hospital--After Chancellorsville--Her
work at Gettysburg with her mother--"Three weeks at Gettysburg"--The
approach to the battle-field--The Sanitary Commission's Lodge near the
railroad depot--The sup