OTE HAWLEY. _By Mrs. H. B. Stowe._

Mrs. Hawley accompanies her husband, Colonel Hawley, to South
Carolina--Teaching the freedmen--Visiting the hospitals at Beaufort,
Fernandina and St. Augustine--After Olustee--At the Armory Square
Hospital, Washington--The surgical operations performed in the
ward--"Reaching the hospital only in time to die"--At Wilmington--
Frightful condition of Union prisoners--Typhus fever raging--The
dangers greater than those of the battle-field--Four thousand sick--
Mrs. Hawley's heroism, and incessant labors--At Richmond--Injured by
the upsetting of an ambulance--Labors among the freedmen--Colonel
Higginson's speech. 416-419

ELLEN E. MITCHELL.

Her family--Motives in entering on the work of ministering to the
soldiers--Receives instructions at Bellevue Hospital--Receives a
nurse's pay and gives it to the suffering soldiers--At Elmore Hospital,
Georgetown--Gratitude of the soldiers--Trials--St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Washington--A dying nurse--Her own serious illness--Care and attention
of Miss Jessie Home--Death of her mother--At Point Lookout--Discomforts
and suffering--Ware House Hospital, Georgetown--Transfer of patients and
nurse to Union Hotel Hospital--Her duties arduous but pleasant--Transfer
to Knight General Hospital, New Haven--Resigns and accepts a situation
in the Treasury Department, but longing for her old work returns to it--
At Fredericksburg after battle of the Wilderness--At Judiciary Square
Hospital, Washington--Abundant labor, but equally abundant happiness--
Her feelings in the review of her work. 420-426

JESSIE HOME.

A Scotch maiden, but devotedly attached to the Union--Abandons a
pleasant and lucrative pursuit to become a hospital nurse--Her
earnestness and zeal--Her incessant labors--Sickness and death--Cared
for by Miss Bergen of Brooklyn, New York. 427, 428

MISS VANCE AND MISS BLACKMAR. _By Mrs. M. M. Husband._

Miss Vance a missionary teacher before the war--Appointed by Miss Dix to
a Baltimore hospital--At Washington, at Alexandria, and at Gettysburg--
At Fredericksburg after the battle of the Wilderness--At City Point in
the Second Corps Hospital--Served through the whole war with but three
weeks' furlough--Miss Blackmar from Michigan--A skilful and efficient
nurse--The almost fatal hemorrhage--The boy saved by her skill--Carrying
a hot brick to bed.