d on to the camp two miles beyond. The next morning she went
out to his camp, but missed him, and returning found him at the Sanitary
Rooms in another chill. The next day she nursed him through a third
chill, and then parting she sent her sick boy on his way toward
Knoxville and Chattanooga.

After a short stay at Vicksburg she once more returned to Illinois to
plead with Governor Yates to bring home his disabled soldiers, then went
back, by way of Louisville and Nashville, to Huntsville, Alabama, where
she met and labored indefatigably with Mrs. Lincoln Clark and her
daughter, of Chicago, and Mrs. Bickerdyke.

After a few weeks spent there in comforting the sick, pointing the dying
to the Saviour, and ministering to surgeons, officers, and soldiers, she
followed our conquering arms to Chattanooga, Resaca, Kingston, Allatoona
Pass, Marietta and Atlanta.

As a memorial of her earlier movements in this campaign, we extract the
following letter from the Report for January and February, 1864, of the
Northwestern Sanitary Commission.

"From a mass of deeply interesting correspondence on hand, we select
the following letter from Rev. Mrs. Jeremiah Porter, who, with Mrs.
Bickerdyke, the widely known and very efficient Hospital Matron, has
been laboring in the hospitals of the 15th Army Corps, most of the time
since the battle of Chickamauga. Mrs. Bickerdyke was assigned to
hospital duty in this corps, at the request of General Sherman, and is
still actively engaged there. This letter affords glimpses of the
hardships and privations of our brave men, whose sufferings in Southern
and Eastern Tennessee during the months of December and January, have
been unparalleled."

"IN CAMP, NOVEMBER 4TH FIELD HOSPITAL,
"CHATTANOOGA, _January 24, 1864._

"I reached this place on New Year's Eve, making the trip of the few
miles from Bridgeport to Chattanooga, in twenty-four hours. New
Year's morning was very cold. I went immediately to the Field
Hospital about two miles out of town, where I found Mrs. Bickerdyke
hard at work, as usual, endeavoring to comfort the cold and
suffering, sick and wounded. The work done on that day told most
happily on the comfort of the poor wounded men.

"The wind came sweeping around Lookout Mountain, and uniting with
currents from the valleys of Mission Ridge, pressed in upon the
hospital tents, overturning some, and making the inmat