-The labors of the patriotic
women connected with the organizations--Mrs. Eliza G. Plummer--Her
faithful and abundant labors--Her death from over exertion--Mrs. Mary B.
Wade--Her great age, and extraordinary services--Mrs. Ellen J. Lowry--
Mrs. Margaret Boyer--Other ladies and their constant and valuable
labors--The worthy ladies of the Cooper Shop Saloon. 733-737

MRS. R. M. BIGELOW.

"Aunty Bigelow"--Mrs. Bigelow a native of Washington--Her services in
the Indiana Hospital in the Patent Office Building--"Hot cakes and
mush and milk"--Mrs. Billing an associate in Mrs. Bigelow's Labors--
Mrs. Bigelow the almoner of many of the Aid Societies at the North--Her
skill and judgment in the distribution of supplies--She maintains a
regular correspondence with the soldier boys who have been under her
care--Her house a "Home" for the sick soldier or officer who asked that
he might be sheltered and nursed there--She welcomes with open doors
the hospital workers from abroad--Her personal sorrows in the midst of
these labors. 738-740

MISS HATTIE R. SHARPLESS AND HER ASSOCIATES.

The Government Hospital Transports early in the war--Great improvements
made in them at a later period--The Government Transport Connecticut--
Miss Sharpless serves as matron on this for seventeen months--His
previous labors in army hospitals at Fredericksburg, Falls Church,
Antietam and elsewhere--Her admirable adaptation to her work--A true
Christian heroine--Thirty-three thousand sick and wounded men under
charge on the Transport--Her religious influence on the men--Miss Hattie
S. Reifsnyder of Catawissa, Penn. and Mrs. Cynthia Case of Newark, Ohio,
her assistants are actuated by a similar spirit--Miss W. F. Harris
of Providence, R. I., also on the Transport, for some months, and
previously in the Indiana Hospital, in Ascension Church and Carver
Hospital, and after leaving the Transport at Harper's Ferry and
Winchester--Her health much broken by her excessive labors--Devotes
herself to the instruction and training of the Freedmen after the close
of the war. 741-743

PART VI. LADIES DISTINGUISHED FOR OTHER SERVICES IN THE NATIONAL CAUSE.

MRS. ANNIE ETHERIDGE.

Mrs. Etheridge's goodness and purity of character--Her childhood and
girlhood passed in Wisconsin--She marries there--Return of her father to
Michigan--She visits him