lication to Miss Dix for an appointment as nurse--She is rejected as
too young--Associated with Hon. Frank B. Fay in the Auxiliary Relief
Service--Her labors on the Hospital Transports--Her manner of working--
Her extraordinary personal influence--Her work at Gettysburg--Influence
over the men--Carrying a sick comrade to the hospital--Her system and
self-possession--Pleading the cause of the soldier with the people--
Her services in Grant's protracted campaign--The hospitals at
Fredericksburg--Singing to the soldiers--Her visit to the barge of
"contrabands"--Her address to the negroes--Singing to them--The hospital
for colored soldiers--Miss Gilson re-organizes and re-models it, making
it the best hospital at City Point--Her labors for the spiritual good
of the men in her hospital--Her care for the negro washerwomen and
their families--Completion of her work--Personal appearance of Miss
Gilson. 133-148

MRS. JOHN HARRIS.

Previous history--Secretary Ladies' Aid Society--Her decision to go to
the "front"--Early experiences--On the Hospital Transports--Harrison's
Landing--Her garments soaked in human gore--Antietam--French's Division
Hospital--Smoketown General Hospital--Return to the "front"--
Fredericksburg--Falmouth--She almost despairs of the success of our
arms--Chancellorsville--Gettysburg--Following the troops--Warrenton--
Insolence of the rebels--Illness--Goes to the West--Chattanooga--Serious
illness--Return to Nashville--Labors for the refugees--Called home to
watch over a dying mother--The returned prisoners from Andersonville and
Salisbury. 149-160

MRS. ELIZA C. PORTER.

Mrs. Porter's social position--Her patriotism--Labors in the hospitals
at Cairo--She takes charge of the Northwestern Sanitary Commission Rooms
at Chicago--Her determination to go, with a corps of nurses, to the
front--Cairo and Paducah--Visit to Pittsburg Landing after the battle--
She brings nurses and supplies for the hospitals from Chicago--At
Corinth--At Memphis--Work among the freedmen at Memphis and elsewhere--
Efforts for the establishment of hospitals for the sick and wounded
in the Northwest--Co-operation with Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Howe--The
Harvey Hospital--At Natchez and Vicksburg--Other appeals for Northern
hospitals--At Huntsville with Mrs. Bickerdyke--At Chattanooga--
Experiences in a field hospital in the woods-