429, 430

H. A. DADA AND S. E. HALL.

Missionary teachers before the war--Attending lectures to prepare for
nursing--After the first battle of Bull Run--At Alexandria--The wounded
from the battle-field--Incessant work--Ordered to Winchester, Virginia--
The Court-House Hospital--At Strasburg--General Banks' retreat--
Remaining among the enemy to care for the wounded--At Armory Square
Hospital--The second Bull Run--Rapid but skilful care of the wounded--
Painful cases--Harper's Ferry--Twelfth Army Corps Hospital--The mother
in search of her son--After Chancellorsville--The battle of Gettysburg--
Labors in the First and Twelfth Corps Hospitals--Sent to Murfreesboro',
Tennessee--Rudeness of the Medical Director--Discomfort of their
situation--Discourtesy of the Medical Director and some of the surgeons--
"We have no ladies here--There are some women here, who are cooks!"--
Removal to Chattanooga--Are courteously and kindly received--Wounded of
Sherman's campaign--"You are the _God-blessedest_ woman I ever saw"--
Service to the close of the war and beyond--Lookout Mountain. 431-439

MRS. SARAH P. EDSON.

Early life--Literary pursuits--In Columbia College Hospital--At Camp
California--Quaker guns--Winchester, Virginia--Prevalence of gangrene--
Union Hotel Hospital--On the Peninsula--In hospital of Sumner's Corps--
Her son wounded--Transferred to Yorktown--Sufferings of the men--At
White House and the front--Beef soup and coffee for starving wounded
men--Is permitted to go to Harrison's Landing--Abundant labor and care--
Chaplain Fuller--At Hygeia Hospital--At Alexandria--Pope's campaign--
Attempts to go to Antietam, but is detained by sickness--Goes to
Warrenton, and accompanies the army thence to Acquia Creek--Return to
Washington--Forms a society to establish a home and training school
for nurses, and becomes its Secretary--Visits hospitals--State Relief
Societies approve the plan--Sanitary Commission do not approve of it
as a whole--Surgeon-General opposes--Visits New York city--The masons
become interested--"Army Nurses' Association" formed in New York--Nurses
in great numbers sent on after the battles of Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
etc.--The experiment a success--Its eventual failure through the
mismanagement in New York--Mrs. Edson continues her labors in the army
to the close of the war--Enthusiastic reception by the soldiers. 440-447

MARIA M. C. HALL.

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