dericksburg--A diet kitchen without furniture--Over
the river after a stove--Baking, boiling, stewing, and frying
simultaneously--Keeping the old stove hot--At City Point--In charge
of a hospital--The last days of the Refreshment Saloon. 480-488
CORNELIA M. TOMPKINS. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._
A scion of an eminent family--At Benton Barracks Hospital--At Memphis--
Return to St. Louis--At Jefferson Barracks. 489, 490
MRS. ANNA C. McMEENS. _By Mrs. E. S. Mendenhall._
A native of Maryland--The wife of a surgeon in the army--At Camp
Dennison--One of the first women in Ohio to minister to the soldiers
in a military hospital--At Nashville in hospital--The battle of
Perryville--Death of Dr. McMeens--At home--Laboring for the Sanitary
Commission--In the hospitals at Washington--Missionary work among the
sailors on Lake Erie. 491, 492
MRS. JERUSHA R. SMALL. _By Mrs. E. S. Mendenhall._
A native of Iowa--Accompanies her husband to the war--Ministers to the
wounded from Belmont, Donelson, and Shiloh--Her husband wounded at
Shiloh--Under fire in ministering to the wounded--Uses all her spare
clothing for them--As her husband recovers her own health fails--The
galloping consumption--The female secessionist--Going home to die--
Buried with the flag wrapped around her. 493, 494
MRS. S. A. MARTHA CANFIELD. _By Mrs. E. S. Mendenhall._
Wife of Colonel H. Canfield--Her husband killed at Shiloh--Burying her
sorrows in her heart--She returns to labor for the wounded in the
Sixteenth Army Corps, in the hospitals at Memphis--Labors among the
freedmen--Establishes the Colored Orphan Asylum at Memphis. 495
MRS. THOMAS AND MISS MORRIS.
Faithful laborers in the hospitals at Cincinnati till the close of the
war. 496
MRS. SHEPARD WELLS. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._
Driven from East Tennessee by the rebels--Becomes a member of the
Ladies' Union Aid Society at St. Louis, and one of its Secretaries--
Superintends the special diet kitchen at Benton Barracks--An
enthusiastic and earnest worker--Labor for the refugees. 497, 498
MRS. E. C. WITHERELL. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._
A lady from Louisville--Her service in the Fourth Street Hospital, St.
Louis--"Shining Shore"--The soldier boy--On the "Empress" hospital
steamer nursing the wounded--A faithful an
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