elf and daughter in the Patent Office Hospital in
1861--Visit to Falls Church and its hospital--Sad condition of the
patients--"If you do not come and take care of me I shall die"--Return
to this hospital--Its condition greatly improved--Winchester and the
Seminary Hospital--Severe labors here--Banks' retreat--The nurses held
as prisoners--Losses of Mrs. and Miss Gibbons at this time--At Point
Lookout--Exchanged prisoners from Belle Isle--A scarcity of garments--
Trowsers a luxury--Fifteen months of hospital service--Conflicts with
the authorities in regard to the freedmen--The July riots in New York
in 1863--Mrs. Gibbons' house sacked by the rioters--Destruction of
everything valuable--Return to Point Lookout--The campaign of 1864-5--
Mrs. and Miss Gibbons at Fredericksburg--An improvised hospital--Mrs.
Gibbons takes charge--The gift of roses--The roses withered and dyed in
the soldiers' blood--Riding with the wounded in box cars--At White
House--Labors at Beverly Hospital, New Jersey--Mrs. Gibbons' return
home--Her daughter remains till the close of the war. 467-475

MRS. E. J. RUSSELL.

Government nurses--Their trials and hardships--Mrs. Russell a teacher
before the war--Her patriotism--First connected with the Regimental
Hospital of Twentieth New York Militia (National Guards)--Assigned
to Columbia College Hospital, Washington--After three years' service
resigns from impaired health, but recovering enters the service
again in Baltimore--Nursing rebels--Her attention to the religious
condition of the men--Four years of service--Returns to teaching after
the war. 477-479

MRS. MARY W. LEE.

Mrs. Lee of foreign birth, but American in feeling--Services in the
Volunteer Refreshment Saloon--A noble institution--At Harrison's
Landing, with Mrs. Harris--Wretched condition of the men--Improvement
under the efforts of the ladies--The Hospital of the Epiphany at
Washington--At Antietam during the battle--The two water tubs--The
enterprising sutler--"Take this bread and give it to that woman"--The
Sedgwick Hospital--Ordering a guard--Hoffman's Farm Hospital--Smoketown
Hospital--Potomac Creek--Chancellorsville--Under fire from the batteries
on Fredericksburg Heights--Marching with the army--Gettysburg--The
Second Corps Hospital--Camp Letterman--The Refreshment Saloon again--
Brandy Station--A stove half a yard square--The battles of the
Wilderness--At Fre