Show f F s OUR DUE WOMEN IN WAR WAE t VOICES OF WIVES AND DAUGHTERS DAUCH- DAUCH ARE NOW HEARD Want Sant to Join the Service as al Nur Nana M or oral oras oras as al Aid Alde of An Any Kind Noble lUnd Noble Deeds of Women on Roth Sides BIdet D urine Daring the tho Civil ChU War Var Tho president and secretary of war ire receiving letters from patriotic romen all over the country anxious to je e mustered into service A letter received at the tho White House and addressed President McKInley Washington D. D C. C reads I write asking if It I would be of any use to you In this Cuba trouble I am only a woman but I can nurse the sick and wounded I only wish I were a man I would go and volunteer to take one ono of our unfortunate ones' ones who went down with the Maine If you need women to nurse or I. I In any way I can be of service to you for my country's sake please let me know I am strong weigh pounds height five feet five and one half Inches ago age 27 21 years anda and anda a good nurse Hoping to be of service to my God and my country I am at your command Another says BaYS I was one of the first volunteer nurses during the war of the rebellion experience on transports trans trans- transports ports and in hospitals If there Is another another another an an- other war I am ready A Canadian woman who says her brother fo fought for our flag in the late war war offers her services and adds in her letter to the tha president Falling the position of nurse I shall be glad to give my services In any other capacity where I may be of use From away down in Colorado another er r wom woman n who addresses her letter War Department offers her services In these words Should there be a war between the United States and Spain would there be any show for us to get transportation We are nurses and strong healthy women There are two of us aged 35 years These are but several examples of the correspondence being received from American women In the event of an outbreak with Spain positions in the army will be open open to many women the number of course depending upon the extent of the struggle During the late war hundreds of women served In many capacities with relation to the army most of them as nurses some as spies and others as purveyors laundresses etc tc Should a great war break out the hospital corps of the army would have to employ a great number of women nurses Secretary Alger would probably k ably appoint an experienced woman as sup superintendent of nurses In 1861 at atthe 1 4 t 1 the beginning of the civil war war Secretary Secre Secre- f I tary tay of War Cameron Cameron appointed Miss I CLARA BARTON DARTON I Dorothea Dix for this duty She offered offered offered of of- her services without compensation compensation compensation tion and nurses selected by her were found upon every battlefield from Bull Run to Appomattox They were in every Union hospital While the typical army nurse Is always al always always al- al ways described by the idealist as a youthful tender angel of mercy with witha a beautiful face it is Interesting to know that generals In command of armies armies ar ar- mies prefer middle-aged middle and homely women for such service A circular distributed by the superintendent of nurses in 1861 read No women under 30 need apply All nurses are required to be very plain- plain looking women Their dresses must be either brown or black with no bows no curls or Jewelry and no hoop skirts The pay given to nurses In the late war was 12 a month but It is said that hundreds of women of social rank and position without waiting to be formally mustered in In served without pay or hope of reward She who Is Isnow Isnow isnow now volunteering tp aid In a conflict with Spain Is not the new woman but the same patriotic creature who offered herself herselt to her flag fing in 1861 General Sherman called Mother Bickerdyke the celebrated nurse of the civil war one of his best generals gen gen- t Th The woman who would be the m most st conspicuous of her sex in a great war war between the United States and Spain Is Miss Clara Barton president of the American Red Cross who is now carIng caring caring car- car Ing for the starving Cubans Should a war break out with Spain womans woman's most valuable military servIce service service ice will be done at home As soon as the first gun of the civil war was fired womans woman's work for both the Union and Confederate causes began in earnest Within a month after President Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln called for the first army of volunteers an association of New York women had chosen from hundreds of candidates competent nurses to be trained by the physicians and surgeons of the city At the same time women throughout the country organized soldIers soldIers' soldiers soldiers' soldiers soldiers' sol sol- sol sol- diers' diers aid societies sewing circles fairs and entertainments cf various sorts for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of furnishing the brave boys both necessities and delicacies Trains running into Washington were weighed down with a tremendous accumulation accumulation accumulation ac ac- ac- ac of freight for this purpose Its distribution was finally turned over overto overto overto to the sanitary commission wl which cooperated co cooperated cooperated co- co co- co operated during the war with women's clubs and societies throughout the entire entire entire en en- tire North After each battle agents distributed the supplies as received l r Ni l' l THE STEAMER OLIVETTE In the Service of Sam Between Havana and Key West Statistics show that during the late war the women's organizations raised altogether among the their r societies societies societies so so- in the Northern states the amount recently appropriated by congress congress congress con con- gress to put the nation upon an effect effe effective tIve t- t ive lye defensive footing The little girls of the North by their miniature fairs and handiwork handiwork contributed Women might serve this government as spies in a great war That a woman cannot keep a secret herself or let any anyone anyone anyone one else keep one Is not borne out by certain secret archives kept in a large proof fire-proof safe In the war department I II a fi t I i Q PANDO One of Spain's Military Leaders In Cuba One of the most active and reliable I Union spies in the late war was a woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man who worked successfully for a along along along long period Eventually however sh she f was caught by the the e enemy and han hanto hanged to a tree Martial law which states I ls death that the spy s punishable by by hanging by the neck has no respect respect respect re re- re- re for sex I w 1 r THE HARBOR OF HA HAVANA V ANA NG NO MORRO CASTLE 4 c r F L. 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