d untiring nurse--Is attacked
with fever, and dies July, 1862--Resolutions of Western Sanitary
Commission. 499-501
PHEBE ALLEN. _By Rev. J. G. Forman._
A teacher in Iowa--Volunteered as a nurse in Benton Barracks hospital--
Very efficient--Died of malarious fever in 1864, at the hospital. 502
MRS. EDWIN GREBLE.
Of Quaker stock--Intensely patriotic--Her eldest son, Lieutenant John
Greble, killed at Great Bethel in 1861--A second son served through the
war--A son-in-law a prisoner in the rebel prisons--Mrs. Greble a most
assiduous worker in the hospitals of Philadelphia, and a constant and
liberal giver. 503, 504
MRS. ISABELLA FOGG.
A resident of Calais, Maine--Her only son volunteers, and she devotes
herself to the service of ministering to the wounded and sick--Goes to
Annapolis with one of the Maine regiments--The spotted fever in the
Annapolis Hospital--Mrs. Fogg and Mrs. Mayhew volunteer as nurses--The
Hospital Transport Service--At the front after Fair Oaks--Savage's
Station--Over land to Harrison's Landing with the army--Under fire--On
the hospital ship--Home--In the hospitals around Washington, after
Antietam--The Maine Camp Hospital Association--Mrs. J. S. Eaton--After
Chancellorsville--In the field hospitals for nearly a week, working day
and night, and under fire--At Gettysburg the day after the battle--On
the Rapidan--At Mine Run--At Belle Plain and Fredericksburg after the
battle of the Wilderness--At City Point--Home again--A wounded son--
Severe illness of Mrs. Fogg--Recovery--Sent by Christian Commission to
Louisville to take charge of a special diet kitchen--Injured by a fall--
An invalid for life--Happy in the work accomplished. 505-510
MRS. E. E. GEORGE.
Services of aged women in the war--Military agency of Indiana--Mrs.
George's appointment--Her services at Memphis--At Pulaski--At
Chattanooga--Following Sherman to Atlanta--Matron of Fifteenth Army
Corps Hospital--At Nashville--Starts for Savannah, but is persuaded
by Miss Dix to go to Wilmington--Excessive labors there--Dies of
typhus. 511-513
MRS. CHARLOTTE E. McKAY.
A native of Massachusetts--Enters the service as nurse at Frederick
city--Rebel occupation of the city--Chancellorsville--The assault on
Marye's Heights--Death of her brother--Gettysburg
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