Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-08 | Page 48 | Noble Women of the War Were the Army Nurses

1 To Mrs. Clarissa P. Dye, national protri- r'.ij dont of tue Association of Army Hjp 111 iNurscs of the Civil War, sorved during Bl , i the rebellion us a vohuiteor army nurse, H ': and recnjls many interesting oxperi- Hft '' T encos during that period. She says: 4 "My first oxperienco was a visit to i a Camp Picrrepont, in i ho winter of 'Gl- si 'fili. Our work -was to improve the ' sanitarj- conditions and tench the sol- Jf dicr nurses how to prepare food for , $ this sick. In .July, 1SG2. I was "accept-1 J 't m1 as a nurse on bnarl the strainer ,'1, Maine, commissioned to trans NOBLE WOMEN Of THE WAR WERE THE ARMY NURSES port exchanged prisonern from Port Delaware to Aiken's Landing, and from Richmond via Aiken's Lamling, to the north; also to .carry" siclc soldiers from the south lo the north. "When tho steamer went out of commission as a ho-pital boat, I oi n;u"d from .Miss' Dix a pass to go to Alexandria, Va., to nurso in any hospital where I might bo needed. T arrived just aB the Lyceum Ly-ceum Military hospital was opened to receive the wounded who had been ly-iug ly-iug on the battlefield of Bull Kim and Chantilly for a week, and eoiuc for eight days. Tho building held sixty ou three floors, and I wua the only woman thero. I remained there until stricken with fever and had to return to Philadelphia, Pa. "3 carried a Thanksgiving dinner to the boys at the Lyceum, and also again at Christmas. 1-SO'J. "Overcoming great difficultiijH E succeeded suc-ceeded in obtaining a pass to Acquia Creek, thenco to Falmouth this was after tho repulse at Fredericksburg thenco to Bello Plain, the winter head-1 quart ors of our army, 1' walked eleven I in jles through mud, over rail fences. 1 and at dusk arrived at mv destination on New Voar's ovt-. ami distributed tho 1 stores 1 had brought to tho men, who I were, awaiting my arrival, and at tho same time brought tho first hospital stores since the repulse at "Fredericksburg. "Fredericks-burg. 'In ISO:-; J hastened on to ficltvs-burg, ficltvs-burg, and served in the .Second Arinv corps with two ladies from Baltimore. I During my siay there, in the absence of Major Holstcin, the y"u-?,rn two ladies and mvselr road ."'"ra service over the body 01 ( '.lM l graves of the Confederate M The winter of 1S63 T ""'if'Mi of supplies to the front at hrm I ion. l ook Christmas dinnor mt Gcnnaxitown men, onh v'.(' JmJl aro now living, and ieur,a,u;;irW( with supplies al Kn r''jKS "From this time on, "''"' 'raK? t! of the war. T was n-liviI n5w collecting and sending sti P"ls fiont. '" Mti