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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
nt and sealed with the seal of the Commonwealth. The Surgeon-General of the United States now urged upon her the superintendence of the Camden Street Hospital in Baltimore, and after a year of service here he removed her to a large and newly established hospital in Chester, Penn., where were a thousand sick and wounded men. After a year at Chester she was transferred to the Naval School Hospital at Annapolis, filled with poor wrecks of humanity from the prison pens of Andersonville and Belle Isle. Mrs. Tyler found in this hospital such an assemblage of incarnate misery as no language can describe. Filth, disease, starvation and cruelty had wrought a ruinous work upon these hapless men. They were emaciated till only the parchment-like skin covered the protruding bones; many of them had dropped into idiocy and lunacy; most of them were too feeble for any exertion; and the mothers who bore them could not have recognized them. Mrs. Tyler had many of the wretched men photographed, i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
— When you got mad; war mishaps and hardships. Bivouac, vol. 2, p. 302. Belle Isle. See also Prisoners at Richmond. — and Libby. Condition of prisoners aerman. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 2, p. 628. — Burial places in Virginia: Belle Isle, Oakwood, Hollywood, Richmond; Cold Harbor; Seven Pines; Point of Rocks; Glenanged; by Shawmut. Boston Evening Journal, Jan. 13, 1862, p. 2, col. 5. — Belle Isle. Nineteen months a prisoner of war; Lieut. Sabre; review, with condensed storournal, Feb. 23, 1864, p. 2, col. 7. — Condition of prisoners in Libby and Belle Isle, 1864. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 2, p. 86. — Condition in 1861, reportedton Evening Journal, Jan. 6, 1862, p. 4, col. 6. — Experience in Libby and Belle Isle of men captured at Fort Wagner, S. C.; from N. Y. Post. Boston Evening Journafrom Gen. Donaldson. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 4, p. 54. — In Virginia. Belle Isle, Oakwood, Hollywood, Richmond; Cold Harbor; Seven Pines; Point of Ro