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East India (search for this): chapter 9
aulding, July 3d. Reached Harrison's Bar at 11 A. M., July 1st, and were ordered to go up the James River, as far as Carter's Landing. To do this we must pass the batteries at City Point. We were told there was no danger if we should carry a yellow flag; yellow flag we had none, so we trusted to the red Sanitary Commission, and prepared to run it. The Galena hailed us to keep below, as we passed the battery. Shortly after, we came up with The Monitor, and the little captain, with his East India hat, trumpet in hand, repeated the advice of The Galena, and added, that if he heard firing, he would follow us. Our cannon pointed its black muzzle at the shore, and on we went. As we left The Monitor, the captain came to me, with his grim smile, and said, I'll take those mattresses you spoke of. We had joked, as people will, about our danger, and I had suggested mattresses round the wheel-house, never thinking that he would try it. But the captain was in earnest; when was he anything
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
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.
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
The Hospital Transport service. The organization of this service by the United States Sanitary Commission difficulties encountered steamers and sailing vessels employed the corps of Ladies employed in the service the headquarters' staff Ladies plying on the Transports to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere work on the Daniel Webster the Ocean Queen difficulties in providing as rapidly as was desired for the numerous patients duties of the Ladies who belonged to the headquarters' staff description of scenes in the work by Miss Wormeley and Miss G. Woolsey taking on patients butter on soft bread Guess I can stand h'isting better'n him spare the darning needles slippers only fit for pontoon bridges visiting Government Transports Scrambling eggs in a wash-basin Subduing the captain of a tug the battle of Fair Oaks bad management on Government Transports sufferings of the wounded Sanitary Commission Relief tent at the wharf
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
and supplied with the stores of the Commission, the boats which the Medical officers of the army had pressed into the service filled with wounded and sent without comfort, food or attendance, on their way to the hospitals in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe; superintended the shipping of patients on the steamers which returned from the North; took account of the stores needed by these boats and saw that they were sent on board; fitted up the new boats furnished to the Commission by the Quartermacrifice for them. Dr. Robert Ware. We are coaling here to-night ( Wilson Small, off Norfolk, June 30th, 1862). We left White House Saturday night, and rendezvoused at West Point. Captain Sawtelle sent us off early, with despatches for Fortress Monroe; this gave us the special fun of being the first to come leisurely into the panic then raging at Yorktown. The Small was instantly surrounded by terror-stricken boats; the people of the big St. Mark leaned, pale, over their bulwarks, to que
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
be. Their duties consisted in nursing, preparing food for the sick and wounded, dressing wounds, in connexion with the surgeons and medical students, and in general, making themselves useful to the great numbers of wounded and sick who were placed temporarily under their charge. Often they provided them with clean beds and hospital clothing, and suitable food in preparation for their voyage to Washington, Philadelphia, or New York. These four ladies were Miss Katherine P. Wormeley, of Newport, R. I., Mrs. William P. Griffin, of New York, one of the executive board of the Woman's Central Association of Relief, Mrs. Eliza. W. Howland, wife of Colonel (afterward General) Joseph Howland, and her sister, Miss Georgiana Woolsey, both of New York. Among those who were in charge of the Hospital Transports for one or more of their trips to the cities we have named, and by their tenderness and gentleness comforted and cheered the poor sufferers, and often by their skilful nursing rescued t
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
g out of what had been to us, through these strange weeks, a sort of home, where all had worked together and been happy; a place which is sacred to some of us now for its intense living remembrances, and for the hallowing of them all by the memory of one who, through months of death and darkness, lived and worked in self-abnegation, lived in and for the suffering of others, and finally gave himself a sacrifice for them. Dr. Robert Ware. We are coaling here to-night ( Wilson Small, off Norfolk, June 30th, 1862). We left White House Saturday night, and rendezvoused at West Point. Captain Sawtelle sent us off early, with despatches for Fortress Monroe; this gave us the special fun of being the first to come leisurely into the panic then raging at Yorktown. The Small was instantly surrounded by terror-stricken boats; the people of the big St. Mark leaned, pale, over their bulwarks, to question us. Nothing could be more delightful than to be as calm and monosyllabic as we were. We
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ny due measure convey to your mind the impressions left on mine in observing, even casually, the operations in the care of the sick at these two points. When we remember what was done by the same noble band of laborers after the battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, in ministering to the wants of thousands of wounded, I am sure that we shall join with them in gratitude and thankfulness that they were enabled to be there. But the end of it all was at hand; the change of base, of which t long as possible, till the telegraph wires had been cut, and the enemy was announced, by mounted messengers, to be at Tunstall's; in fact, till the roar of the battle came nearer, and we knew that Stoneman with his cavalry was falling back to Williamsburg, and that the enemy were about to march into our deserted places. All night we sat on the deck of The Small slowly moving away, watching the constantly increasing cloud and the fire-flashes over the trees towards the White House; watching t
Galena (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
pits which line the shore. No one can tell us as yet what work there is for us; the wounded have not come in. Hospital Transport Spaulding, July 3d. Reached Harrison's Bar at 11 A. M., July 1st, and were ordered to go up the James River, as far as Carter's Landing. To do this we must pass the batteries at City Point. We were told there was no danger if we should carry a yellow flag; yellow flag we had none, so we trusted to the red Sanitary Commission, and prepared to run it. The Galena hailed us to keep below, as we passed the battery. Shortly after, we came up with The Monitor, and the little captain, with his East India hat, trumpet in hand, repeated the advice of The Galena, and added, that if he heard firing, he would follow us. Our cannon pointed its black muzzle at the shore, and on we went. As we left The Monitor, the captain came to me, with his grim smile, and said, I'll take those mattresses you spoke of. We had joked, as people will, about our danger, and I
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
hich might at that time be lying at Alexandria. Under this authorization the Daniel Webster was assigned to the Commission on the 25th of April, and having been fitted up, the stores shipped, and the hospital corps for it assembled, it reached York River on the 30th of April. Other boats were subsequently, (several of them, very soon) assigned to the Commission, and were successively fitted up, and after receiving their freights of sick and wounded, sent to Washington, Philadelphia, New Yorkssion's headquarters in the Peninsula. Their position and duties were in many respects more trying and arduous than those who accompanied the sick and wounded to the hospitals of the cities. The Daniel Webster, which, as we have said, reached York River April 30, discharged her stores except what would be needed for her trip to New York, and having placed them in a store-house on shore, began to supply the sick in camp and hospital, and to receive such patients on board as it was deemed expedi
Laura Trotter (search for this): chapter 9
were in charge of the Hospital Transports for one or more of their trips to the cities we have named, and by their tenderness and gentleness comforted and cheered the poor sufferers, and often by their skilful nursing rescued them from the jaws of death, were Mrs. George T. Strong, the wife of the Treasurer of the Commission, who made four or five trips; Miss Harriet Douglas Whetten, who served throughout the Peninsular Campaign as head of the Women's Department on the S. R. Spaulding; Mrs. Laura Trotter, (now Mrs. Charles Parker) of Boston, who occupied a similar position on the Daniel Webster; Mrs. Bailey, at the head of the Women's Department on the Elm City; Mrs. Charlotte Bradford, a Massachusetts lady who made several trips on the Elm City and Knickerbocker; Miss Amy M. Bradley, whose faithful services are elsewhere recorded; Mrs. Annie Etheridge, of the Fifth Michigan, Miss Bradley's faithful and zealous co-worker; Miss Helen L. Gilson, who here as well as everywhere else proved
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