--Services in Third
Division Third Corps Hospital--At Warrenton--Mine Run--Brandy Station--
Grant's campaign--From Belle Plain to City Point--The Cavalry Corps
Hospital--Testimonials presented to her. 514-516

MRS. FANNY L. RICKETTS.

Of English parentage--Wife of Major-General Ricketts--Resides on the
frontier for three years--Her husband wounded at Bull Run--Her heroism
in going through the rebel lines to be with him--Dangers and privations
at Richmond--Ministrations to Union soldiers--He is selected as a
hostage for the privateersmen, but released at her urgent solicitation--
Wounded again at Antietam, and again tenderly nursed--Wounded at
Middletown, Virginia, October, 1864, and for four months in great
danger--The end of the war. 517-519

MRS. JOHN S. PHELPS.

Early history--Residence in the Southwest--Rescues General Lyon's
body--Her heroism and benevolence at Pea Ridge and elsewhere. 520, 521

MRS. JANE R. MUNSELL.

Maryland women in the war--Barbara Frietchie--Effie Titlow--Mrs.
Munsell's labors in the hospitals after Antietam and Gettysburg--Her
death from over-exertion. 522, 523

PART III. LADIES WHO ORGANIZED AID SOCIETIES, RECEIVED AND FORWARDED
SUPPLIES TO THE HOSPITALS, DEVOTING THEIR WHOLE TIME TO THE WORK, ETC.

WOMAN'S CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF. _By Mrs. Julia B. Curtis._

Organization and officers of the Association--It becomes a branch of the
United States Sanitary Commission--Its Registration Committee and their
duties--The Selection and Preparation of Nurses for the Army--The
Finance and Executive Committee--The unwillingness of the Government
to admit any deficiency--The arrival of the first boxes for the
Association--The sacrifices made by the women in the country towns and
hamlets--The Committee of Correspondence--Twenty-five thousand letters--
The receiving book, the day-book and the ledger--The alphabet repeated
seven hundred and twenty-seven times on the boxes--Mrs. Fellows and Mrs.
Colby solicitors of donations--The call for nurses on board the Hospital
Transports--Mrs. W. P. Griffin and Mrs. David Lane volunteer, and
subsequently other members of the Association--Mrs. D'Oremieulx's
departure for Europe--Mr. S. W. Bridgham's faithful labors--Creeping
into the Association rooms of a Sunday, to gather up and forward supplies
needed for sudden emergencies--The First Counci