Final Chapter: the faithful but less conspicuous laborers.
- The many necessarily unnamed -- Ladies who served at Antietam, Point Lookout, City Point or Naval Academy Hospital, Annapolis -- the faithful workers at Benton Barracks Hospital, St. Louis -- Miss Lovell, Miss Bissell, Mrs. Tannehill, Mrs. R. S. Smith, Mrs. Gray, Miss Lane, Miss Adams, Miss Spaulding, Miss King, Mrs. Day -- other nurses of great merit appointed by the Western Sanitary Commission -- volunteer visitors in the St. Louis hospitals -- Ladies who ministered to the soldiers in Quincy, and in Springfield, Illinois -- Miss Georgiana Willets, Misses Molineux and McCabe -- Ladies of Cincinnati who served in the hospitals -- Mrs. C. J. Wright, Mrs. Starbuck, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Woods and Mrs. Caldwell -- Miss E. L. Porter of Niagara Falls -- Boston Ladies -- Mrs. And Miss Anna Lowell, Mrs. O. W. Holmes, Miss Stevenson, Mrs. S. Loring, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. Brimmer, Miss Rogers, Miss Felton. -- Louisville, Ky. -- Mrs. Bishop Smith and Mrs. Menefee -- Columbus, Ohio -- Mrs. Hoyle, Mrs. Ide, Miss Swayne -- Mrs. Seward of Utica -- Mrs. Corven, of Hartford, Conn -- Miss long, of Rochester -- Mrs. Farr, of Norwalk, Ohio -- Miss Bartlett, of the soldiers' Aid Society, Peoria, ill. -- Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Comstock, of Michigan, Mrs. Dame, of Wisconsin -- Miss Bucklin, of Auburn, N. Y. -- Miss Louise M. Alcott, of Concord, Mass. -- Miss Penfield, of Michigan -- the Misses Rexford of Illinois -- Miss Sophia Knight, of South reading, Mass., a faithful laborer among the Freedmen
So abundant and universal was the patriotism and self-sacrifice of the loyal women of the nation that the long list of heroic names whose deeds of mercy we have recorded in the preceding pages gives only a very inadequate idea of woman's work in the war. These were but the generals or at most the commanders of regiments, and staff-officers, while the great army of patient workers followed in their train. In every department of philanthropic labor there were hundreds and in some, thousands, less conspicuous indeed than these, but not less deserving. We regret that the necessities of the case compel us to pass by so many of these without notice, and to give to others of whom we know but little beyond their names, only a mere mention. Among those who were distinguished for services in field, camp or army hospitals, not already named, were the following, most of whom rendered efficient service at Antietam or at the Naval Academy Hospital at Annapolis. Some of them were also at City Point; Miss Mary Cary, of Albany, N. Y., and her sister, most faithful and efficient nurses of the sick and wounded, as worthy doubtless, of a more prominent position in this work as many others found in the preceding pages, Miss Agnes Gillis, of Lowell, Mass., Mrs. Guest, of Buffalo, N. Y., Miss Maria Josslyn, of Roxbury, Mass., Miss Ruth L. Ellis, of Bridgewater, Mass.,
