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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
iding special diet and comfort in the general hospitals at these posts, which were often of great extent, involved a vast amount of labor and frequently serious privation, and personal discomfort on the part of the nurses. Some of these who volunteered for the work were remarkable for their earnest and faithful labors in behalf of the soldiers, under circumstances which would have disheartened any but the most resolute spirits. We may name without invidiousness among these, Mrs. Colfax, Miss Maertz, Miss Melcenia Elliott, Miss Parsons, Miss Adams, and Miss Brayton, who, with many others, perhaps equally faithful, by their constant assiduity in their duties, have given proof of their ardent love of their country. To provide for the great numbers 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 bodi
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Louisa Maertz. (search)
Louisa Maertz.Rev. J. G. Forman. Her birth and parentage her residence in Germany and kansas Union soldier the half-blind widow Miss Maertz at Vicksburg at New Orleans During the stress. He soon learned that her name was Louisa Maertz, of Quincy, Illinois, who had come from hery, which will serve for a brief sketch. Miss Maertz was born in Quincy, Illinois, in 1838. Herincy, Illinois; and the opportunity came to Miss Maertz, which she had so long desired, to undertakat the writer of this sketch first met with Miss Maertz, engaged in the work of a hospital nurse, eor sufferer's heart. The last time I saw Miss Maertz, while engaged in her hospital work, was atd fallen sick at Helena. For several weeks Miss Maertz had nursed and cared for him with all a woms of her husband and attending his burial. Miss Maertz sent word to me, asking me to perform the belena. At a later period in the service, Miss Maertz was transferred to the hospitals at Vicksb