"Aunty Bigelow"--Mrs. Bigelow a native of Washington--Her services in the Indiana Hospital in the Patent Office Building--"Hot cakes and mush and milk"--Mrs. Billing an associate in Mrs. Bigelow's Labors-- Mrs. Bigelow the almoner of many of the Aid Societies at the North--Her skill and judgment in the distribution of supplies--She maintains a regular correspondence with the soldier boys who have been under her care--Her house a "Home" for the sick soldier or officer who asked that he might be sheltered and nursed there--She welcomes with open doors the hospital workers from abroad--Her personal sorrows in the midst of these labors. 738-740
MISS HATTIE R. SHARPLESS AND HER ASSOCIATES.
The Government Hospital Transports early in the war--Great improvements made in them at a later period--The Government Transport Connecticut-- Miss Sharpless serves as matron on this for seventeen months--His previous labors in army hospitals at Fredericksburg, Falls Church, Antietam and elsewhere--Her admirable adaptation to her work--A true Christian heroine--Thirty-three thousand sick and wounded men under charge on the Transport--Her religious influence on the men--Miss Hattie S. Reifsnyder of Catawissa, Penn. and Mrs. Cynthia Case of Newark, Ohio, her assistants are actuated by a similar spirit--Miss W. F. Harris of Providence, R. I., also on the Transport, for some months, and previously in the Indiana Hospital, in Ascension Church and Carver Hospital, and after leaving the Transport at Harper's Ferry and Winchester--Her health much broken by her excessive labors--Devotes herself to the instruction and training of the Freedmen after the close of the war. 741-743
PART VI. LADIES DISTINGUISHED FOR OTHER SERVICES IN THE NATIONAL CAUSE.
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