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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
iers' Rest, where they tarried during their stay in the city. She was a constant attendant and nurse at the hospitals at Bedloe's Island, and also at the large general hospital at David's Island. A large proportion of the supplies from Berkshire County, Mass., found their way to these hospitals, and came under the supervision of Mrs. Davis; and in her graphic letters to the county papers she never tired of expatiating on their abundance and excellence. Miss Mary Dwight Pettes was born in Bts women whose patriotic record during the war was that of unflinching self-sacrifice and active devotion to the men who were fighting to maintain an intact and undivided republic. Mrs. Curtis T. Fenn of Pittsfield, Mass., was a leader in Berkshire County, where the women looked to her as their head and worked under her direction. During the war nearly $10,000 worth of supplies from her native county passed directly through her hands to New York, to be used in the hospitals there or forwarde