Woman's work in the Civil War : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience

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Introduction / by Henry W. Bellows, D.D

Introductory chapter

pt. I. Superintendent of nurses. Miss Dorothea L. Dix

pt. II. Ladies who ministered to the sick and wounded in camp, field, and general hospitals. Clara Harlowe Barton ; Helen Louise Gilson ; Mrs. John Harris ; Mrs. Eliza C. Porter ; Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke ; Margaret Elizabeth Breckinridge / by Mrs. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Stephen Barker ; Amy M. Bradley ; Mrs. Arabella Griffith Barlow ; Mrs. Nellie Maria Taylor ; Mrs. Adaline Tyler ; Mrs. William H. Holstein ; Mrs. Cordelia A.P. Harvey / by Rev. N.M. Mann ; Mrs. Sarah R. Johnston ; Emily E. Parsons / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Almira Fales ; Mrs. Mary Morris Husband ; The Hospital Transport Service ; Other labors of some of the members of the Hospital Transport Corps ; Katherine Prescott Wormeley ; The Misses Woolsey ; Anna Maria Ross ; Mrs. G.T.M. Davis ; Mary J. Safford ; Mrs. Lydia G. Parrish ; Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer ; Melcenia Elliott / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mary Dwight Pettes / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Louisa Maertz / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Harriet R. Colfax ; Clara Davis ; Mrs. R.H. Spencer ; Mrs. Harriet Foote Hawley / by Mrs. H.B. Stowe ; Ellen E. Mitchell ; Jessie Home ; Miss Vance and Miss Blackmar / by Mrs. M.M. Husband. H.A. Dada and S.E. Hall ; Mrs. Sarah P. Edson ; Maria M.C. Hall ; The Hospital Corps at the Naval Academy Hospital, Annapolis ; Other labors of some of the members of the Annapolis Hospital Corps ; Mrs. A.H. and Miss S.H. Gibbons ; Mrs. E.J. Russell ; Mrs. Mary W. Lee ; Cornelia M. Tompkins / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Anna C. McMeens / by Mrs. E.S. Mendenhall ; Mrs. Jerusha R. Small / by Mrs. E.S. Mendenhall ; Mrs. S.A. Martha Canfield / by Mrs. E.S. Mendenhall ; Mrs. Thomas and Miss Morris ; Mrs. Shepard Wells / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. E.C. Witherell / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Phebe Allen / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Mrs. Edwin Greble ; Mrs. Isabella Fogg ; Mrs. E.E. George ; Mrs. Charlotte E. McKay ; Mrs. Fanny L. Ricketts ; Mrs. John S. Phelps ; Mrs. Jane R. Munsell

pt. III. Ladies who organized aid societies, received and forwarded supplies to the hospitals, devoting their whole time to the work, etc. Woman's Central Association of Relief / by Mrs. Julia B. Curtis ; Soldier's Aid Society of Northern Ohio ; New England Women's Auxiliary Association ; The Northwestern Sanitary Commission ; Mrs. A.H. Hoge ; Mrs. Mary A. Livermore ; General Aid Society for the Army, Buffalo ; Michigan Soldiers' Aid Society ; Women's Pennsylvania Branch of United States Sanitary Commission. The Wisconsin Soldiers' Aid Society / by Rev. J.G. Forman ; Pittsburg Branch United States Sanitary Commission ; Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mendenhall ; Department of the South ; St. Louis Ladies' Union Aid Society ; Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia, & c ; Women's Relief Association of Brooklyn and Long Island ; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Streeter ; Mrs. Curtis T. Fenn ; Mrs. James Harlan ; New England Soldiers' Relief Association

pt. IV. Ladies distinguished for services among the freedmen and refugees. Mrs. Frances Dana Gage ; Mrs. Lucy Gaylord Pomeroy ; Maria R. Mann ; Sarah J. Hagar ; Mrs. Josephine R. Griffin ; Mrs. M.M. Hallowell ; Other friends of the freedmen and refugees

pt. V. Ladies distinguished for services in soldiers' homes, volunteer refreshment saloons, on government hospital transports, etc. Mrs. O.E. Hosmer ; Miss Hattie Wiswall ; Mrs. Lucy E. Starr ; Miss Charlotte Bradford ; Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia ; Mrs. R.M. Bigelow ; Miss Hattie R. Sharpless and her associates

pt. VI. Ladies distinguished for other services in the national cause. Mrs. Annie Etheridge ; Delphine P. Baker ; Mrs. S. Burger Stearns ; Barbara Frietchie ; Mrs. Hettie M. McEwen ; Other defenders of the flag ; Military heroines ; The women of Gettysburg ; Loyal women of the South ; Miss Hetty A. Jones / by Horatio G. Jones, Esq

Final chapter. The faithful but less conspicuous laborers