a company. 234-240

MRS. ADALINE TYLER.

Residence in Boston--Removal to Baltimore--Becomes Superintendent of
a Protestant Sisterhood in that city--Duties of the Sisterhood--The
"Church Home"--Other duties of "Sister" Tyler--The opening of the
war--The Baltimore mob--Wounding and killing members of the Sixth
Massachusetts regiment--Mrs. Tyler hears that Massachusetts men are
wounded and seeks admission to them--Is refused--She persists, and
threatening an appeal to Governor Andrew is finally admitted--She takes
those most severely wounded to the "Church Home," procures surgical
attendance for them, and nurses them till their recovery--Other Union
wounded nursed by her--Receives the thanks of the Massachusetts
Legislature and Governor--Is appointed Superintendent of the Camden
Street Hospital, Baltimore--Resigns at the end of a year, and visits New
York--The surgeon-general urges her to take charge of the large hospital
at Chester, Pennsylvania--She remains at Chester till the hospital
is broken up, when she is transferred to the First Division General
Hospital, Naval Academy, Annapolis--The returned prisoners--Their
terrible condition--Mrs. Tyler procures photographs of them--Impaired
health--Resignation--She visits Europe, and spends eighteen months
there, advocating as she has opportunity the National cause--The
fiendish rebel spirit--Incident relative to President Lincoln's
assassination. 241-250

MRS. WILLIAM H. HOLSTEIN.

Social position of Mr. and Mrs. Holstein--Early labors for the soldiers
at home--The battle of Antietam--She goes with her husband to care for
the wounded--Her first emotions at the sight of the wounded--Three
years' devotion to the service--Mr. and Mrs. Holstein devote themselves
mainly to field hospitals--Labors at Fredericksburg, in the Second Corps
Hospital--Services after the battle of Chancellorsville--The march
toward Pennsylvania in June, 1863--The Field Hospital of the Second
Corps after Gettysburg--Incidents--"Wouldn't be buried by the side of
that raw recruit"--Mrs. Holstein Matron of the Second Corps Hospital--
Tour among the Aid Societies--The campaign of 1864-5--Constant labors in
the field hospitals at Fredericksburg, City Point, and elsewhere, till
November--Another tour among the Aid Societies--Labors among the
returned prisoners at Annapolis. 251-259

MRS. CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY. _By