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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 6 (search)
spitals and rendered great service to Union soldiers. Mrs. Flanders, wife of Hon. Benjamin Flanders, and her two daughters, Miss Florence and Miss Fanny Flanders were also well known for their persistent Unionism and their abundant labors for the sick and wounded. Mrs. and Miss Carrie Wolfley, Mrs. Dr. Kirchner, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Bryden, Mrs. Barnett and Miss Bennett, Mrs. Wibrey, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Hodge, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Charles Howe of Key West, and Miss Edwards from Massachusetts, were all faithful and earnest workers in the hospitals throughout the war, and Union women when their Unionism involved peril. Miss Sarah Chappell, Miss Cordelia Baggett and Miss Ella Gallagher, also merit the same commendation. Nor should we fail to do honor to those loyal women in the mountainous districts and towns of the interior of the South. Our prisoners as they were marched through the towns of the South always found some tender pitying hearts, ready to do something for th
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Part II. (search)
Part II. Superintendent of nurses. Miss Dorothea L. Dix. Early history Becomes interested in the condition of prison convicts visit to Europe returns in 1837, and devotes herself to improving the condition of paupers, lunatics and prisoners her efforts for the establishment of insane Asylums Second visit to Europe her first work in the war the nursing of Massachusetts soldiers in Baltimore appointment as superintendent of nurses her selections difficulties in her position her other duties Mrs. Livermore's account of her labors the adjutant-general's order Dr. Lellows' estimate of her work her kindness to her nurses her publications her manners and address labors for the insane poor since the war Among all the women who devoted themselves with untiring energy, and gave talents of the highest order to the work of caring for our soldiers during the war, the name of Dorothea L. Dix will always take the first rank, and history will undoubtedly preserve it
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
return to Washington in 1861 nursing and providing for Massachusetts soldiers at the Capitol in April, 1861 Hospital and sayears, commencing when very young, in various places in Massachusetts and New Jersey. The large circle of friends thus formeer. About the close of 1861, Miss Barton returned to Massachusetts to watch over the declining health of her father, now iafter the assembling of Congress, Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, who had always been her firm friend, moved an approprir of the Hon. William Whiting, late Attorney-General of Massachusetts, and the wife of the Rev. Stephen Barker, during the wathe Sixth Massachusetts regiment Mrs. Tyler hears that Massachusetts men are wounded and seeks admission to them is refuseder, the subject of the following sketch, is a native of Massachusetts, and for many years was a resident of Boston, in which and granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Parsons, of Massachusetts. Miss Parsons was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, wa
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, The Hospital Transport service. (search)
were ordered up to City Point, under a flag of truce, to receive our wounded men who were prisoners in Richmond. At last the whistle sounded and the train came in sight. The poor fellows set up a weak cheer at the sight of the old flag, and those who had the strength hobbled and tumbled off the train almost before it stopped. We took four hundred and one on board. Two other vessels which accompanied us took each two hundred more. The rebel soldiers had been kind to our men,so they said,--but the citizens had taken pains to insult them. One man burst into tears as he was telling me of their misery: May God defend me from such again. God took him to Himself, poor suffering soul! He died the next morning,--died because he would not let them take off his arm. I wasn't going to let them have it in Richmond; I said I would take it back to old Massachusetts. Of course we had a hard voyage with our poor fellows in such a condition, but, at least, they were cleaned and well fed.
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, The Misses Woolsey. (search)
good, now; -- I'll take some of that ; -- worth a penny a sniff; that kinder gives one life; --and so on, all round the tents, as we tipped the bottles up on the clean handkerchiefs some one had sent, and when they were gone, over squares of cotton, on which the perfume took the place of hem,--just as good, ma'am. We varied our dinners with custard and baked rice puddings, scrambled eggs, codfish hash, corn-starch, and always as much soft bread, tea, coffee, or milk as they wanted. Two Massachusetts boys I especially remember for the satisfaction with which they ate their pudding. I carried a second plateful up to the cars, after they had been put in, and fed one of them till he was sure he had had enough. Young fellows they were, lying side by side, one with a right and one with a left arm gone. The Gettysburg women were kind and faithful to the wounded and their friends, and the town was full to overflowing of both. The first day, when Mrs.-- and I reached the place, we lite
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)
Mrs. Bishop Smith and Mrs. Menefee Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Hoyle, Mrs. Ide, Miss Swayne Mrs. Seward of Utica Mrs. Corven, of Hartford, Conn Miss long, of Rochester Mrs. Farr, of Norwalk, Ohio Miss Bartlett, of the soldiers' Aid Society, Peoria, ill. Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Comstock, of Michigan, Mrs. Dame, of Wisconsin Miss Bucklin, of Auburn, N. Y. Miss Louise M. Alcott, of Concord, Mass. Miss Penfield, of Michigan the Misses Rexford of Illinois Miss Sophia Knight, of South reading, Mass., a faithful laborer among the Freedmen So abundant and universal was the patriotism and self-sacrifice of the loyal women of the nation that the long list of heroic names whose deeds of mercy we have recorded in the preceding pages gives only a very inadequate idea of woman's work in the war. These were but the generals or at most the commanders of regiments, and staff-officers, while the great army of patient workers followed in their train. In every department of philanthropic labor th