and while there joins the Second Michigan
Regiment, to attend to its sick and wounded--Transferred subsequently to
the Third Regiment, and at the expiration of its term of service joins
the Fifth Michigan Regiment--She is in the skirmish of Blackburn's Ford
and at the first battle of Bull Run--In hospital service--On a hospital
transport with Miss Amy M. Bradley--At the second battle of Bull Run--
The soldier boy torn to pieces by a shot while she is ministering to
him--General Kearny's recognition of her services--Kearny's death
prevents her receiving promotion--At Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863--She
leads in a skirmish, rides along the front exhorting the men to do their
duty, and finds herself under heavy fire--An officer killed by her side
and she herself slightly wounded--Her horse, wounded, runs with her--She
seeks General Berry and after a pleasant interview takes charge of a
rebel officer, a prisoner, whom she escorts to the rear--"I would risk
my life for Annie, any time"--General Berry's death--The wounded
artillery-man--She binds up his wounds and has him brought to the
hospital--Touching letter--The retreating soldiers at Spottsylvania--
Annie remonstrates with them, and brings them back into the fight, under
heavy fire--Outside the lines, and closely pursued by the enemy--
Hatcher's Run--She dashes through the enemy's line unhurt--She receives
a Government appointment at the close of the war--Her modesty and
diffidence of demeanor. 747-753

DELPHINE P. BAKER.

Her birth and education--Character of her parents--Her lectures on the
sphere and culture of women--Her labors in Chicago in the collection and
distribution of hospital supplies--Her hospital work--Ill health--She
commences the publication of "The National Banner" first in Chicago,
next in Washington and finally in New York--Its success but partial--Her
efforts long, persistent and unwearied, for the establishment of a
National Home for Soldiers--The bill finally passes Congress--Delay in
organization--Its cause--Miss Baker meantime endeavors to procure Point
Lookout as a location for one of the National Soldiers' Homes--Change in
the act of incorporation--The purchase of the Point Lookout property
consummated. 754-759

MRS. S. BURGER STEARNS.

A native of New York City--Her education at the State Normal School of
Michigan--Her marriage--Her husband a Co