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hington city--Desire to serve the sick and wounded-- Receives a sick soldier into her father's house--Too young to answer the conditions required by Miss Dix--Application to Mrs. Fales-- Attempts to dissuade her--"Well girls here they are, with everything to be done for them"--The Indiana Hospital--Difficulties and discouragements--A year of hard and unsatisfactory work--Hospital Transport Service--The Daniel Webster--At Harrison's Landing with Mrs. Fales--Condition of the poor fellows--Mrs. Harris calls her to Antietam--French's Division and Smoketown Hospitals--Abundant work but performed with great satisfaction--The French soldier's letter--The evening or family prayers--Successful efforts for the religious improvement of the men--Dr. Vanderkieft--The Naval Academy Hospital at Annapolis--In charge of Section five--Succeeds Mrs. Tyler as Lady Superintendent of the hospital--The humble condition of the returned prisoners from Andersonville and elsewhere--Prevalence of typhus fever-- Death of her assistants--Four thousand patients--Writes for "The Crutch"--Her joy in the success of her work. 448-454 THE HOSPITAL CORPS AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY HOSPITAL, ANNAPOLIS. The cruelties which had been practiced on the Union men in rebel prisons--Duties of the nurses under Miss Hall--Names and homes of these ladies--Death of Miss Adeline Walker--Miss Hall's tribute to her memory--Miss Titcomb's eulogy on her--Death of Miss M. A. B. Young-- Sketch of her history--"Let me be buried here among my boys"--Miss Rose M. Billing--Her faithfulness as a nurse in the Indiana Hospital, (Patent Office,) at Falls Church, and at Annapolis--She like the others falls a victim to the typhus generated in Southern prisons--Tribute to her memory. 455-460 OTHER LABORS OF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ANNAPOLIS HOSPITAL CORPS. The _Maine stay_ of the Annapolis Hospital--Miss Titcomb--Miss Newhall-- Miss Usher--Other ladies from Maine--The Maine camp and Hospital Association--Mrs. Eaton--Mrs. Fogg--Mrs. Mayhew--Miss Mary A. Dupee and her labors--Miss Abbie J. Howe--Her labors for the spiritual as well as physical good of the men--Her great influence over them--Her joy in her work. 461-466 MRS. A. H. AND MISS S. H. GIBBONS. Mrs. Gibbons a daughter of Isaac T. Hopper--Her zeal in the cause of reform--Work of hers
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