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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
of men discharged from the hospitals while yet feeble and ill, and without the means of going to their often distant homes, and the hundreds of enfeebled and mutilated soldiers, whose days of service were over, and who, often in great bodily weakness, sought to obtain the pay due them from the Government, and not unseldom died in the effort; the United States Sanitary Commission and the Western Sanitary Commission established Soldiers' Homes at Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, Nashville, St. Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, and other places. In these, these disabled men found food and shelter, medical attendance when needed, assistance in collecting their dues, and aid in their transportation homeward. To each of these institutions, a Matron was assigned, often with female assistants. The duties of these Matrons were extremely arduous, but they were performed most nobly. To some of these homes were attached a department for the mothers, wives and daughters of the wounded so
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 6 (search)
Harris' efforts to have the Union flag lowered on her house Mrs. Hooper's poem Mrs. McEwen is an aged woman of Nashville, Tennessee, of revolutionary stock, having had six uncles in the revolutionary war, four of whom fell at the battle of King'sjects of her greatest concern. Making a flag with her own hands, she raised it in the first movements of secession, in Nashville, and when through the treachery of Isham Harris and his co-conspirators, Tennessee was dragged out of the Union, and thgainst the blue of the sunny sky; Deep was the oath, and dark the frown, And loud the shout of “Tear it down!” For over Nashville, far and wide, Rebel banners the breeze defied, Staining heaven with crimson bars; Only the one old “Stripes and Stars”'er And Nashville town was ours once more. Came the day when Fort Donelson Fell, and the rebel reign was done; And into Nashville, Buell, then, Marched with a hundred thousand men, With waving flags and rolling drums Past the heroine's house he com
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
goes to the West Chattanooga serious illness return to Nashville labors for the refugees called home to watch over a dyin armies, and about the 1st of October, she went to Nashville, Tennessee, taking her friends Miss Tyson and Mrs. Beck with hfugees, the poor white trash, who were then crowding into Nashville. For a month and more they labored zealously, and with ge to provide for the inmates of the numerous hospitals in Nashville, a Thanksgiving dinner, pushed forward to the front, reacfaithful labor among these poor fellows, she went back to Nashville, and spent four or five months more among the refugees. sabled soldiers, then went back, by way of Louisville and Nashville, to Huntsville, Alabama, where she met and labored indefaor the sick out of hard tack and the ordinary rations at Nashville and Franklin through the Carolinas with Sherman Distribhicago for a brief period of rest, but was soon called to Nashville and Franklin to attend the wounded of General Thomas's Ar
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer. (search)
ll secure the distribution of proper food to this class of patients-taking such delicate articles of food as our good people supply to the very bed-sides of the poor languishing soldiers, and administering, with words of encouragement and sympathy, to their pressing wants; such persons to co-operate with the surgeons in all their efforts for the sick. This plan of operations has been sanctioned and adopted by the United States Christian Commission. There is one in successful operation at Nashville, under the direction, I believe, of a daughter of the Honorable J. K. Moorehead, of Pittsburg. The one here is under the direction of Mrs. R. E. Conrad, of Keokuk, Iowa, and her two sisters. They are doing a great and good work now in Knoxville. From three to five hundred patients are thus daily supplied with delicate food, who would otherwise have scarcely anything to eat. The success of their labors has demonstrated beyond a doubt the practicability of the plan of Mrs. Wittenmeyer. T
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Final Chapter: the faithful but less conspicuous laborers. (search)
s and other hospitals, in and near St. Louis. Of some of these, subsequently engaged in other fields of labor we have already spoken; a few others merit special mention for their extraordinary faithfulness and assiduity in the service; Miss Emily E. Parsons, the able lady superintendent of the Benton Barracks Hospital, gives her testimony to the efficiency and excellent spirit of the following ladies; Miss S. R. Lovell, of Galesburg, Michigan, whose labors began in the hospitals near Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1864 was transferred to Benton Barracks, but was almost immediately prostrated by illness, and after her recovery returned to the Tennessee hospitals. Her gentle sympathizing manners, and her kindness to the soldiers won for her their regard and gratitude. Miss Lucy J. Bissell, of Meremec, St. Louis County, Mo., offered her services as volunteer nurse as soon as the call for nurses in 1861, was issued; and was first sent to one of the regimental hospitals at Cairo, in July