Chapter VII: Part VI: Ladies Distinguished for Other Services in the National Cause

MRS. ANNIE ETHERIDGE.

Mrs. Etheridge's goodness and purity of character--Her childhood and girlhood passed in Wisconsin--She marries there--Return of her father to Michigan--She visits him and while there joins the Second Michigan Regiment, to attend to its sick and wounded--Transferred subsequently to the Third Regiment, and at the expiration of its term of service joins the Fifth Michigan Regiment--She is in the skirmish of Blackburn's Ford and at the first battle of Bull Run--In hospital service--On a hospital transport with Miss Amy M. Bradley--At the second battle of Bull Run-- The soldier boy torn to pieces by a shot while she is ministering to him--General Kearny's recognition of her services--Kearny's death prevents her receiving promotion--At Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863--She leads in a skirmish, rides along the front exhorting the men to do their duty, and finds herself under heavy fire--An officer killed by her side and she herself slightly wounded--Her horse, wounded, runs with her--She seeks General Berry and after a pleasant interview takes charge of a rebel officer, a prisoner, whom she escorts to the rear--"I would risk my life for Annie, any time"--General Berry's death--The wounded artillery-man--She binds up his wounds and has him brought to the hospital--Touching letter--The retreating soldiers at Spottsylvania-- Annie remonstrates with them, and brings them back into the fight, under heavy fire--Outside the lines, and closely pursued by the enemy-- Hatcher's Run--She dashes through the enemy's line unhurt--She receives a Government appointment at the close of the war--Her modesty and diffidence of demeanor. 747-753

DELPHINE P. BAKER.

Her birth and education--Character of her parents--Her lectures on the sphere and culture of women--Her labors in Chicago in the collection and distribution of hospital supplies--Her hospital work--Ill health--She commences the publication of "The National Banner" first in Chicago, next in Washington and finally in New York--Its success but partial--Her efforts long, persistent and unwearied, for the establishment of a National Home for Soldiers--The bill finally passes Congress--Delay in organization--Its cause--Miss Baker meantime endeavors to procure Point Lookout as a location for one of the National Soldiers' Homes--Change in the act of incorporation--The purchase of the Point Lookout property consummated. 754-759

MRS. S. BURGER STEARNS.

A native of New York City--Her education at the State Normal School of Michigan--Her marriage--Her husband a Colonel of volunteers--She visits the hospitals and devotes herself to lecturing in behalf of the Aid movement. 760

BARBARA FRIETCHIE.

Her age--Her patriotism--Whittier's poem. 761-763

MRS. HETTIE M. McEWEN.

Of revolutionary lineage--Her devotion to the Union--Her defiance of Isham Harris' efforts to have the Union flag lowered on her house--Mrs. Hooper's poem. 764-766

OTHER DEFENDERS OF THE FLAG.

Mrs. Effie Titlow--Mrs. Alfred Clapp--Mrs. Moore (Parson Brownlow's daughter)--Miss Alice Taylor--Mrs. Booth--"_Never surrender the flag to traitors_". 767-769

MILITARY HEROINES.

Those who donned the male attire not entitled to a place in our pages-- Madame Turchin--Her exploits--Bridget Divers--"Michigan Bridget" or "Irish Biddy"--She recovers her captain's body, and carries it on her horse for fifteen miles through rebel territory--Returns after the wounded, but is overtaken by the rebels while bringing them off and plundered of her ambulance horses--Others soon after provided-- Accompanies a regiment of the regular army to the plains after the war--Mrs. Kady Brownell--Her skill as a sharp-shooter, and in sword exercise--Color Bearer in the Fifth Rhode Island Infantry--A skillful nurse--Her husband wounded--Discharged from the army in 1863. 770-774

THE WOMEN OF GETTYSBURG.

Mrs. Jennie Wade--Her loyalty and courage--Her death during the battle-- Miss Carrie Sheads, Principal of Oak Ridge Seminary--Her preservation of Colonel Wheelock's sword--Her labors in the care of the wounded--Her health impaired thereby--Miss Amelia Harmon--Her patriotism and courage--"Burn the house if you will!" 775-778

LOYAL WOMEN OF THE SOUTH.

Names of loyal Southern Women already mentioned--The loyal women of Richmond--Their abundant labors for Union prisoners--Loyal women of Charleston--The Union League--Food and clothing furnished--Loyalty and heroism of some of the negro women--Loyal women of New Orleans--The names of some of the most prominent--Loyal women of the mountainous districts of the south--Their ready aid to our escaping prisoners--Miss Melvina Stevens--Malignity of some of the Rebel women--Heroism of Loyal women in East Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Alabama. 779-782

MISS HETTY A. JONES. _By Horatio G. Jones, Esq._

Miss Jones' birth and lineage--She aids in equipping the companies of Union soldiers organized in her own neighborhood--Her services in the Filbert Street Hospital--Death of her brother--Visit to Fortress Monroe--She determines to go to the front and attaches herself to the Third Division, Second Corps, Hospital at City Point--Has an attack of Pleurisy--On her recovery resumes her labors--Is again attacked and dies on the 21st of December, 1864--Her happy death--Mourning of the convalescent soldiers of the Filbert Street Hospital over her death. 783-786

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. Cowen, 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. 787-794

INDEX OF NAMES OF LADIES. 795-800

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1.--MISS CLARA H. BARTON FRONTISPIECE.

2.--BARBARA FRIETCHIE VIGNETTE TITLE.

3.--MRS. MARY A. BICKERDYKE 172

4.--MISS MARGARET E. BRECKENRIDGE 187

5.--MRS. NELLIE MARIA TAYLOR 234

6.--MRS. CORDELIA A. P. HARVEY 260

7.--MISS EMILY E. PARSONS 273

8.--MRS. MARY MORRIS HUSBAND 287

9.--MISS MARY J. SAFFORD 357

10.--MRS. R. H. SPENCER 404

11.--MISS HATTIE A. DADA 431

12.--MRS. MARIANNE F. STRANAHAN 651

13.--MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE 577

14.--MRS. HENRIETTA L. COLT 609

15.--MRS. MARY B. WADE 736

16.--ANNIE ETHERIDGE 747