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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Preface. (search)
nued to the present time, soon demonstrated how general were the acts of patriotic devotion, and an extensive tour, undertaken the following summer, to obtain by personal observation and intercourse with these heroic women, a more clear and comprehensive idea of what they had done and were doing, only served to increase his admiration for their zeal, patience, and self-denying effort. Meantime the war still continued, and the collisions between Grant and Lee, in the East, and Sherman and Johnston, in the South, the fierce campaign between Thomas and Hood in Tennessee, Sheridan's annihilating defeats of Early in the valley of the Shenandoah, and Wilson's magnificent expedition in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, as well as the mixed naval and military victories at Mobile and Wilmington, were fruitful in wounds, sickness, and death. Never had the gentle and patient ministrations of woman been so needful as in the last year of the war; and never had they been so abundantly bestowed,
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
e the nature and practice of a true Christian heroism. Mrs. Sarah R. Johnston. Loyal Southern women Mrs. Johnston's birth and sMrs. Johnston's birth and social position her interest in the Union prisoners a Yankee sympathizer --the young soldier her tender care of him, living and dead workplace in the records of womanly patriotism and courage than Mrs. Sarah R. Johnston. At the breaking out of the war Mrs. Johnston was teachiMrs. Johnston was teaching a school at Salisbury, North Carolina, where she was born and always resided. When the first prisoners were brought into that place, the d past saluted them with contemptuous epithets. From that time Mrs. Johnston determined to devote herself to the amelioration of the conditve deep, and no record of their place of burial was permitted. Mrs. Johnston also copied from the rebel registers at Salisbury after the pladied, and one thousand six hundred and fifty-seven remained. Mrs. Johnston came North in the summer of 1865, to visit her daughter, who ha
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Index of names of women whose services are recorded in this book. (search)
8. Holden, Mrs. F. A., 409. Holmes, Mrs. Amelia, L., 411. Holstein, Mrs. William H., 251-259. Hooper, Mrs. Lucy H., 73. Houghton, Mrs., 408. Howe, Mrs. Charles, 89. Howe, Mrs. T. O., 164. Howell, Mrs., 89. Howland, Mrs. Eliza W., 301, 324-326. Howland, Mrs. Robert S., 62, 326, 327. Humphrey, Miss, 164. Husband, Mrs. Mary Morris, 157, 287- 298, 301,316,401. Ide, Mrs., 411. Ives, Mrs. John, 409. Johnson, Miss Addie E., 399. Johnson, Miss Ida, 408. Johnson, Mrs., 209, 210. Johnston, Mrs. Sarah R., 88, 269-272. Jones, Mrs. Elizabeth, 409. Jones, Miss Hetty A., 92, 95. Jones, Mrs. Joel, 79. Josslyn, Miss Maria, 405. King, Miss E. M., 407. King, Mrs. Washington, 409. King, Mrs. Wyllys, 409. Kirchner, Mrs. Dr., 89. Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline M., 62. Knight, Miss Sophia, 412. Lane, Miss Adeline A., 407. Latham, Mrs. P. C., 409. Lanthrop, Mrs. L. E., 408. Leach, Mrs. Lydia, 408. Ledergerber, Miss Charlotte, 408. Lee, Mrs. Mary W., 47, 157. Livermore, Mrs. Mary