o Pittsburg Landing, before and after the battle of Shiloh--Heavy
and protracted labor for the nurses--Return to St. Louis--At the Fifth
Street Hospital--At Jefferson Barracks--Her associates--Obliged to
retire from the service on account of her health in 1864. 395-399

CLARA DAVIS.

Miss Davis not a native of this country--Her services at the Broad and
Cherry Street Hospital, Philadelphia--One of the Hospital Transport
corps--The steamer "John Brooks"--Mile Creek Hospital--Mrs. Husband's
account of her--At Frederick City, Harper's Ferry, and Antietam--Agent
of the Sanitary Commission at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland--Is
seized with typhoid fever here--When partially recovered, she resumes
her labors, but is again attacked and compelled to withdraw from her
work--Her other labors for the soldiers, both sick and well--Obtaining
furloughs--Sending home the bodies of dead soldiers--Providing
head-boards for the soldiers' graves. 400-403

MRS. R. H. SPENCER.

Her home in Oswego, New York--Teaching--An anti-war Democrat is
convinced of his duty to become a soldier, though too old for the
draft--Husband and wife go together--At the Soldiers' Rest in
Washington--Her first work--Matron of the hospital--At Wind-Mill
Point--Matron in the First Corps Hospital--Foraging for the sick and
wounded--The march toward Gettysburg--A heavily laden horse--Giving up
her last blanket--Chivalric instincts of American soldiers--Labors
during the battle of Gettysburg--Under fire--Field Hospital of the
Eleventh Corps--The hospital at White Church--Incessant labors--Saving
a soldier's life--"Can you go without food for a week?"--The basin
of broth--Mrs. Spencer appointed agent of the State of New York for
the care of the sick and wounded soldiers in the field--At Brandy
Station--At Rappahannock Station and Belle Plain after the battle
of the Wilderness--Virginia mud--Working alone--Heavy rain and no
shelter--Working on at Belle Plain--"Nothing to wear"--Port Royal--White
House--Feeding the wounded--Arrives at City Point--The hospitals and
the Government kitchen--At the front--Carrying supplies to the men in
the rifle pits--Fired at by a sharpshooter--Shelled by the enemy--The
great explosion at City Point--Her narrow escape--Remains at City Point
till the hospitals are broken up--The gifts received from grateful
soldiers. 404-415

MRS. HARRIET FO