Enters the service as Hospital Nurse in 1863--At Benton Barracks
Hospital--A Model nurse--Her cheerfulness--Removal to Nashville,
Tennessee--She is sent thence to Vicksburg, first as an assistant and
afterwards as principal matron at the Soldiers' Home--One hundred and
fifteen thousand soldiers accommodated there during her stay--The number
of soldiers daily received ranging from two hundred to six hundred--Her
admirable management--Scrupulous neatness of the Home--Her labors among
the Freedmen and Refugees at Vicksburg--Her care of the wounded from
the Red River Expedition--Her tenderness and cheerful spirit--She
accompanies a hospital steamer loaded with wounded men, to Cairo, and
cheers and comforts the soldiers on their voyage--Takes charge of a
wounded officer and conducts him to his home--Return to her duties--The
Soldiers' Home discontinued in June, 1865. 726-727

MRS. LUCY E. STARR.

A Clergyman's widow--Her service in the Fifth Street Hospital, St.
Louis--Her admirable adaptation to her duties--Appointed by the Western
Sanitary Commission, Matron of the Soldiers' Home at Memphis--Nearly one
hundred and twenty thousand soldiers received there during two and a
half years--Mrs. Starr manages the Home with great fidelity and
success--Mr. O. R. Waters' acknowledgment of her services--Closing of
the Home--Mrs. Starr takes charge of an institution for suffering
freedmen and refugees, in Memphis--Her faithfulness. 728-730

MISS CHARLOTTE BRADFORD.

Her reticence in regard to her labors--The public and official life of
ladies occupying positions in charitable institutions properly a matter
of public comment and notice--Miss Bradford's labors in the Hospital
Transport Service--The Elm City--The Knickerbocker--Her associates in
this work--Other Relief Work--She succeeds Miss Bradley as matron of the
Soldiers' Home at Washington--Her remarkable executive ability, dignity
and tenderness for the sick and wounded soldier. 731, 732

UNION VOLUNTEER REFRESHMENT SALOON OF PHILADELPHIA.

The labors of Mrs. Lee and Miss Ross in institutions of this class--The
beginning of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon--Rival but not
hostile organization--Samuel B. Fales, Esq., and his patriotic labors--
The two institutions well supplied with funds--Nearly nine hundred
thousand soldiers fed at the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, and
four hundred thousand at the Cooper Shop-