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Show PENSIONS FOR ARMY NURSES' ' , V . Association of Women Who" Ministered to Wants ;ot Suffering Soldiers Will Appeal to Congress! PHILADELPHIA,'' April . 22. Mrs. CIa-: rissa Dye, 75 years old, this city; pVesl-j dent of the Association . of Array Nurses of the Civil war. who dod heroic, work at Gettysburg and on other battlefields in the rebellion. Is collecting data from the 100 surviving women . nurses in the United States who saw service on the battlefield bat-tlefield In the war, with a view of furnishing fur-nishing Congress- with facts looking to the securing of pensions from the Government Gov-ernment for- these volunteers. "Many of . these, women today." said $Irs. Dye, "are poor and destitute widows and too old to work. They were volunteer volun-teer nurses and left their homes during the time of the Civil war to nurse tha sick and dying soldiers. Their work was one of love and sympathy and they res celved no compensation from the Gov-, ernment. "The contract nurses were provided for, receiving $12 a month pension. I plead for the poor, aged women who nursed back to life many -a sick and wounded hero of the battlefield. The Government should certainly make provision for them, and I believe It will next December, when the bill wll be brought up." |