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ply tent--Crutches--Supplying rebels and Union men alike--Dressing wounds--"On dress parade"--"Bread with _butter_ on it and _jelly_ on the butter"--"Worth a penny a sniff"--The Gettysburg women--The Gettysburg farmers--"Had never seen a rebel"--"A feller might'er got hit"--"I couldn't leave my bread"--The dying soldiers-- "Tell her I love her"--The young rebel lieutenant--The colored freedmen--Praying for "Massa Lincoln"--The purple and blue and yellow handkerchiefs--"Only a blue one"--"The man who screamed so"--The German mother--The Oregon lieutenant--"Soup"--"Put some meat in a little water and stirred it round"--Miss Woolsey's rare capacities for her work-- Estimate of a lady friend--Miss Jane Stuart Woolsey--Labors in hospitals--Her charge of the Freedmen at Richmond--Miss Sarah C. Woolsey, at Portsmouth Grove Hospital. 324-342 ANNA MARIA ROSS. Her parentage and family--Early devotion to works of charity and benevolence--Praying for success in soliciting aid for the unfortunate--The "black small-pox"--The conductor's wife--The Cooper Shop Hospital--Her incessant labors and tender care of her patients-- Her thoughtfulness for them when discharged--Her unselfish devotion to the good of others--Sending a soldier to his friends--"He must go or die"--The attachment of the soldiers to her--The home for discharged soldiers--Her efforts to provide the funds for it--Her success--The walk to South Street--Her sudden attack of paralysis and death--The monument and its inscription. 343-351 MRS. G. T. M. DAVIS. Mrs. Davis a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts--A patriotic family--General Bartlett--She becomes Secretary of the Park Barracks Ladies' Association--The Bedloe's Island Hospital--The controversy-- Discharge of the surgeon--Withdrawal from the Association--The hospital at David's Island--Mrs. Davis's labors there--The Soldiers' Rest on Howard Street--She becomes the Secretary of the Ladies' Association connected with it--Visits to other hospitals--Gratitude of the men to whom she has ministered--Appeals to the women of Berkshire--Her encomiums on their abundant labors. 352-356 MARY J. SAFFORD. Miss Safford a native of Vermont, but a resident of Cairo--Her thorough and extensive mental culture--She organizes temporary hospitals among the regiments stationed at Cairo--Visiting the wounded on the field after the b
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