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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The soldiers' guardian angel. (search)
ns, she returned to Washington, and, with the sanction of President Lincoln, commenced the work of making a systematic record of the missing soldiers of the Union armies, and ascertaining their whereabouts, condition, and fate. The organization of this bureau of correspondence in relation to the missing soldiers required records, and the employment of six or eight clerks, beside an infinity of labor on her part. At the request of the Secretary of War, she visited Andersonville with Captain James M. Moore and Dorrence Atwater, a soldier who had been a prisoner there, and superintended the establishment of a cemetery there, and the erection of headboards for the thirteen thousand Union dead there, the greater part of them murdered by the inhumanities of rebel officers and guards. In this bureau of correspondence and her previous labors in behalf of the soldier, Miss Barton had exhausted her own patrimony and resources, and partly in payment for these expenditures, and partly to enable