hington city--Desire to serve the sick and wounded--
Receives a sick soldier into her father's house--Too young to answer
the conditions required by Miss Dix--Application to Mrs. Fales--
Attempts to dissuade her--"Well girls here they are, with everything
to be done for them"--The Indiana Hospital--Difficulties and
discouragements--A year of hard and unsatisfactory work--Hospital
Transport Service--The Daniel Webster--At Harrison's Landing with
Mrs. Fales--Condition of the poor fellows--Mrs. Harris calls her to
Antietam--French's Division and Smoketown Hospitals--Abundant work but
performed with great satisfaction--The French soldier's letter--The
evening or family prayers--Successful efforts for the religious
improvement of the men--Dr. Vanderkieft--The Naval Academy Hospital at
Annapolis--In charge of Section five--Succeeds Mrs. Tyler as Lady
Superintendent of the hospital--The humble condition of the returned
prisoners from Andersonville and elsewhere--Prevalence of typhus fever--
Death of her assistants--Four thousand patients--Writes for "The
Crutch"--Her joy in the success of her work. 448-454
THE HOSPITAL CORPS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY HOSPITAL, ANNAPOLIS.
The cruelties which had been practiced on the Union men in rebel
prisons--Duties of the nurses under Miss Hall--Names and homes of these
ladies--Death of Miss Adeline Walker--Miss Hall's tribute to her
memory--Miss Titcomb's eulogy on her--Death of Miss M. A. B. Young--
Sketch of her history--"Let me be buried here among my boys"--Miss Rose
M. Billing--Her faithfulness as a nurse in the Indiana Hospital, (Patent
Office,) at Falls Church, and at Annapolis--She like the others falls a
victim to the typhus generated in Southern prisons--Tribute to her
memory. 455-460
OTHER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ANNAPOLIS HOSPITAL CORPS.
The _Maine stay_ of the Annapolis Hospital--Miss Titcomb--Miss Newhall--
Miss Usher--Other ladies from Maine--The Maine camp and Hospital
Association--Mrs. Eaton--Mrs. Fogg--Mrs. Mayhew--Miss Mary A. Dupee and
her labors--Miss Abbie J. Howe--Her labors for the spiritual as well as
physical good of the men--Her great influence over them--Her joy in her
work. 461-466
MRS. A. H. AND MISS S. H. GIBBONS.
Mrs. Gibbons a daughter of Isaac T. Hopper--Her zeal in the cause of
reform--Work of hers
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