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Morris Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
d the battle of Fredericksburg under fire the rebel officer's appeal the confiscated carpet after the battle in the department of the South the sands of Morris Island the horrors of the siege of forts Wagner and Sumter the reason why she went thither return to the North preparations for the great campaign her labors at forts Wagner and Sumter the reason why she went thither return to the North preparations for the great campaign her labors at Belle Plain, Fredericksburg, White House, and City Point return to Washington appointed General correspondent for the friends of paroled prisoners her residence at Annapolis obstacles the Annapolis plan abandoned she establishes at Washington a Bureau of records of missing men in the armies of the United States the plan o Later in the season Miss Barton accompanied the Gilmore and Dahlgren expeditions and was present at nearly all the military operations on James, Folly, and Morris Islands. The ground occupied on the latter by the army, during the long siege of Fort Wagner, was the low sand-hills forming the sea-board of the Island. No tree,
Niagara County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
rnment rooms, where we prepare the Government work for the poor women, four hundred of whom we supply with work every week. I have also a family of refugees to look after, so I do not lack employment. Early in June, Miss Breckinridge reached Niagara on her way to the East, where she remained for a month. For a year she struggled against disease and weakness, longing all the time to be at work again, making vain plans for the time when she should be well and strong, and able to go back to tmnant of strength and courage she went to Baltimore to join the afflicted family of Colonel Porter, saying characteristically, I can do more good with them than anywhere else just now. After a week's rest in Baltimore she proceeded with them to Niagara, bearing the journey apparently well, but the night after her arrival she became alarmingly ill, and it was soon evident that she could not recover from her extreme exhaustion and prostration. For five weeks her life hung trembling in the balan
Sugar Creek (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
pressing duties which call me everywhere. Yours, etc., closer>Eliza C. Porter. In illustration of her services at this time, and of the undercurrent of terror and sadness of this triumphal march, we can do no better than to give some extracts from her journal, kept during this period, and published without her knowledge in the Sanitary Commission Bulletin. It was commenced on the 15th of May, 1864, as she was following Mrs. Bickerdyke to Ringgold, Georgia. Together they arrived at Sugar Creek, where but two miles distant the battle was raging, and spent the night at General Logan's headquarters, within hearing of its terrific sounds. All night, and all day Sunday, they passed thus, not being permitted to go upon the field, but caring for the wounded as rapidly as possible, as they were brought to the rear. She says: The wounded were brought into hospitals, quickly and roughly prepared in the forest, as near the field as safety would permit. What a scene was presented!
America (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
turned to kiss Her shadow as it falls Upon the darkening walls. Mrs. Almira Fales. The first woman to work for the soldiers she commenced in December, 1860 her continuous service amount of stores distributed by her variety and severity of her work Hospital Transport service Harrison's Landing her work in Pope's campaign death of her son her sorrowful toil at Fredericksburg and Falmouth her peculiarities and humor Mrs. Fales, it is believed, was the first woman in America who performed any work directly tending to the aid and comfort of the soldiers of the nation in the late war. In truth, her labors commenced before any overt acts of hostility had taken place, even so long before as December, 1860. Hostility enough there undoubtedly was in feeling, but the fires of secession as yet only smouldered, not bursting into the lurid flames of war until the following spring. Yet Mrs. Fales, from her home in Washington, was a keen observer of the signs of the ti
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
oached when she was to devote herself to the work of creating a model hospital for the colored soldiers who now formed a considerable body of troops in the Army of the Potomac. She was deeply interested in the struggle of the African race upward into the new life which seemed opening for them, and her efforts for the mental and moral elevation of the freedmen and their families were eminently deserving of record. Dr. Reed relates how, as they were passing down the Rappahannock and up the York and Pamunky rivers to the new temporary base of the army at Port Royal, they found a government barge which had been appropriated to the use of the contrabands, of whom about a thousand were stowed away upon it, of all ages and both sexes, all escaped from their former masters in that part of Virginia. The hospital party heard them singing the negroes' evening hymn, and taking a boat from the steamer rowed to the barge, and after a little conversation persuaded them to renew their song, whic
Chantilly (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
April, 1861 Hospital and sanitary work in 1861 death of her father Washington hospitals again going to the front Cedar Mountain the second Bull Run battle Chantilly heroic labors at Antietam soft bread three barrels of flour and a bag of salt thirty lanterns for that night of gloom the race for Fredericksburg — Miss Baro die alone and in the dark, and no one could move among the wounded, for fear of stumbling over them. Miss Barton replied, that, profiting by her experience at Chantilly, she had brought with her thirty lanterns, and an abundance of candles. It was worth a journey to Antietam, to light the gloom of that night. On the morrow, ththe James. She spent a considerable time in the hospitals at Fortress Monroe; and was active in her ministrations upon the fields in the battles of Centreville, Chantilly, and the second battle of Bull Run, indeed most of those of Pope's campaign in Virginia in the autumn of 1862. At the battle of Chancellorsville, or rather at
Manchester (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
sketch is gathered from the pages of a Memorial published by her friends shortly after her death, which occurred at Niagara Falls, July 27th, 1864. Margaret Elizabeth Breckinridge was born in Philadelphia, March 24th, 1832. Her paternal graork came upon her which absorbed all her time and powers. In the year 1852 her sister married Mr. Peter A. Porter of Niagara Falls, a gentleman of culture and accomplishments, a noble man, a true patriot. At his house the resort of literary and scbility that her brother-in-law, Colonel Porter,* This truly Christian hero, the son of General Peter A. Porter of Niagara Falls, was one of those rare spirits, who surrounded by everything which could make life blissful, were led by the promptiner cousin. One of the delegates of the Christian Commission writes concerning him: Colonel Peter B. Porter, of Niagara Falls, commanding the 8th New York heavy artillery, was killed within five or six rods of the rebel lines. Seven wounds we
Cape Girardeau (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
home was at the hospitable mansion of George Partridge, Esq., an esteemed member of the Western Sanitary Commission, whose household seem to have vied with each other in attention and kindness to their guest. Hearing of great suffering at Cape Girardeau, she went there about the 1st of August, just as the First Wisconsin Cavalry were returning from their terrible expedition through the swamps of Arkansas. She had last seen them in all their pride and manly beauty, reviewed by her husband, t her first acts was to telegraph Mr. Yeatman, President of the Western Sanitary Commission, at St. Louis, for hospital stores, and in two days, by his promptness and liberality, she received an abundant supply. After several weeks' stay at Cape Girardeau, during which time the condition of the hospital greatly improved, Mrs. Harvey continued her tour of visitation which was to embrace all the general hospitals on the Mississippi river, as well as the regimental hospitals of the troops of her
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
e contrabands regarded her almost as a divinity, and would fly with unwonted alacrity to obey her commands. We are not certain whether she was an assistant in one of the hospitals, or succored the wounded in any of the battles in Kentucky or Missouri, in the autumn of 1861; we believe she was actively engaged in ministering to the wounded after the fall of Fort Donelson, and at Shiloh after the battle she rendered great and important services. It was here, or rather at Savannah, Tennessee, soldiers, is subject of remark and wonder among all who have witnessed her labors. At that time St. Louis was the theater of active military operations, and the hospitals were crowded with sick and wounded from the camps and battle-fields of Missouri and Tennessee. The army was not then composed of the hardy veterans whose prowess has since carried victory into every rebellious State, but of boys and young men unused to hardship, who, in the flush of enthusiasm, had entered the army. Time
Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
joined Mrs. Governor Harvey, who was striving to obtain a State Hospital for Wisconsin. Here she proposed to Senator T. O. Howe to draft a petition to the Presidene of the sick and wounded soldiers she visits St. Louis as Agent for the State of Wisconsin work in the St. Louis hospitals in the autumn of 1862 heroic labors at nfluence over the soldiers the soldiers' Orphan Asylum at Madison The State of Wisconsin is justly proud of a name, which, while standing for what is noble and tr was of the most cordial character, a General Hospital was granted to the State of Wisconsin; and none who visit the city of Madison can fail to observe, with patriot to act a distinctively manly part. Although known as the agent of the State of Wisconsin, Mrs. Harvey has paid little regard to state lines, and has done a truly t his little ones to the charity of the world. Through her exertions the State of Wisconsin now has a Soldiers' Orphan Asylum, where all these children of our dead h
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