ply tent--Crutches--Supplying rebels and Union
men alike--Dressing wounds--"On dress parade"--"Bread with _butter_ on
it and _jelly_ on the butter"--"Worth a penny a sniff"--The Gettysburg
women--The Gettysburg farmers--"Had never seen a rebel"--"A feller
might'er got hit"--"I couldn't leave my bread"--The dying soldiers--
"Tell her I love her"--The young rebel lieutenant--The colored
freedmen--Praying for "Massa Lincoln"--The purple and blue and yellow
handkerchiefs--"Only a blue one"--"The man who screamed so"--The German
mother--The Oregon lieutenant--"Soup"--"Put some meat in a little water
and stirred it round"--Miss Woolsey's rare capacities for her work--
Estimate of a lady friend--Miss Jane Stuart Woolsey--Labors in
hospitals--Her charge of the Freedmen at Richmond--Miss Sarah C.
Woolsey, at Portsmouth Grove Hospital. 324-342
ANNA MARIA ROSS.
Her parentage and family--Early devotion to works of charity
and benevolence--Praying for success in soliciting aid for the
unfortunate--The "black small-pox"--The conductor's wife--The Cooper
Shop Hospital--Her incessant labors and tender care of her patients--
Her thoughtfulness for them when discharged--Her unselfish devotion to
the good of others--Sending a soldier to his friends--"He must go or
die"--The attachment of the soldiers to her--The home for discharged
soldiers--Her efforts to provide the funds for it--Her success--The
walk to South Street--Her sudden attack of paralysis and death--The
monument and its inscription. 343-351
MRS. G. T. M. DAVIS.
Mrs. Davis a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts--A patriotic
family--General Bartlett--She becomes Secretary of the Park Barracks
Ladies' Association--The Bedloe's Island Hospital--The controversy--
Discharge of the surgeon--Withdrawal from the Association--The hospital
at David's Island--Mrs. Davis's labors there--The Soldiers' Rest on
Howard Street--She becomes the Secretary of the Ladies' Association
connected with it--Visits to other hospitals--Gratitude of the men to
whom she has ministered--Appeals to the women of Berkshire--Her
encomiums on their abundant labors. 352-356
MARY J. SAFFORD.
Miss Safford a native of Vermont, but a resident of Cairo--Her thorough
and extensive mental culture--She organizes temporary hospitals among
the regiments stationed at Cairo--Visiting the wounded on the field
after the b
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