abors in their establishment in
connection with large hospitals--Special order of the War Department--
The estimate of her services by the Christian Commission. 373-378

MELCENIA ELLIOTT. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._

Previous pursuits--In the hospitals in Tennessee in the summer and
autumn of 1862--A remarkably skilful nurse--Services at Memphis--The
Iowa soldier--She scales the fence to watch over him and minister to his
needs, and at his death conveys his body to his friends, overcoming all
difficulties to do so--In the Benton Barracks Hospital--Volunteers to
nurse the patients in the erysipelas ward--Matron of the Refugee Home at
St. Louis--"The poor white trash"--Matron of Soldiers' Orphans' Home at
Farmington, Iowa. 379-383

MARY DWIGHT PETTES. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._

A native of Boston--Came to St. Louis in 1861, and entered upon hospital
work in January, 1862--Her faithful earnest work--Labors for the
spiritual as well as physical welfare of the soldiers, reading the
Scriptures to them, singing to them, etc.--Attachment of the soldiers
to her--She is seized with typhoid fever contracted in her care for her
patients, and dies after five weeks' illness--Dr. Eliot's impressions
of her character. 384-388

LOUISA MAERTZ. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._

Her birth and parentage--Her residence in Germany and Switzerland--Her
fondness for study--Her extraordinary sympathy and benevolence--She
commences visiting the hospitals in her native city, Quincy, Illinois,
in the autumn of 1861--She takes some of the wounded home to her
father's house and ministers to them there--She goes to St. Louis--Is
commissioned as a nurse--Sent to Helena, then full of wounded from
the battles in Arkansas--Her severe labors here--Almost the only woman
nurse in the hospitals there--"God bless you, dear lady"--The Arkansas
Union soldier--The half-blind widow--Miss Maertz at Vicksburg--At
New Orleans. 390-394

MRS. HARRIET R. COLFAX.

Early life--A widow and fatherless--Her first labors in the hospitals in
St. Louis--Her sympathies never blunted--The sudden death of a soldier--
Her religious labors among the patients--Dr. Paddock's testimony--The
wounded from Fort Donelson--On the hospital boat--In the battle at
Island No. Ten--Bringing back the wounded--Mrs. Colfax's care of them--
Trips t