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do quite with it as you told me. that is I did not take it to each one, but I took it to the lady nurse

My sister Martha is untiring, feeding & nursing him.

I want you to give my best wishes to the Lady Nurse of Ward K also to W[ard] M[aster] Cate, Brown, Billy

The notes on female nurses during the war were used in Female Nurses for Soldiers, first published under

the heading, A Few Words about Female Nurses for Soldiers, in The Soldiers, New-York Times (6 March

wish to hear about them—every one is so unfeeling, it has got to be an old story—there is no good nursing—O

I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master, about a new case.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Cleanliness, proper nursing, watching &c., are more deficient than in any hospital I know.

WOMEN NURSES. Middle-aged women and mothers of families are best.

am compelled to say young ladies, however refined, educated and benevolent, do not succeed as army nurses

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

A thrill run through him and thought he was dying he was in the dark he cald called to one of the nurses

B ILLINGS , Nurse Billings was Rose M.

Billing (no "s"), who served as a nurse from 1861 through the end of 1864.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS.

W RIGHT , of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

There are plenty of excellent clean old black women that would make tip-top nurses.

amid strangers, passing away untended there, (for the crowd of the badly hurt was great, and much for nurse

Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing, &c.

Alfred has good accommodations where he is, & a good doctor, & nursing—so you must not worry about him

Rice who is helping nurse the wounded soldiers in Armory Square Hospital.

Howard's sister Sallie is very sick, I think typhoid fever, & I have been out to-day trying to get a nurse

I got a good nurse for them, as their nurse had to leave.

One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.

winter of '63 and '64 recur very vividly to memory; his meeting soldiers on the street whom he had nursed

He then repaired to the city of Washington, and devoted himself to nursing and conversing with the wounded

He has been a visitor of prisons, a protector of fugitive slaves, a constant voluntary nurse, night and

one of those pretty and good girls, who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

come out safe , I somehow feel certain Mother is well as usual—defers every thing else, & does the nursing

I have nursed her in sickness, made every thing as agreeable and convenient as possible for her household

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master about a new case.

He was nurse at the time to a number of soldiers, badly wounded in the late battles, and whose wounds

get away tomorrow but hope to— We had quite a pleasant time in coming on—Mrs Rice —(with child and nurse

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

abandonments;' but in 1862, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he undertook the (gratuitous) service of nursing

"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

was his occupation until the outbreak of the great civil war in 1862, when he undertook the duty of nursing

As a hospital nurse, Whitman proved the nobleness of his nature by his untiring devotion to the sick

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

received your two letters, & was glad to get them— —Mother has been quite sick, & I have been sort of nurse

For some days past my mother has been ill—some of the time very ill—and I have been nurse & doctor too

Mother has had an attack of illness, somewhat severe, the last few days—& I have been sort of nurse &

here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter Doyle are regular still, helping & lifting & nursing

confidence and love between us, welded by sickness, pain of wounds, and little daily, nightly offices of nursing

hospitals that as long as there is any chance for a man, no matter how bad he may be, the surgeon and nurses

As you advance through the dusk of early candle-light a nurse will step forth on tip-toe, and silently

If it is a case where stimulus is any relief, the nurse gives milk-punch or brandy, or whatever is wanted

." a general ice-cream treat, purchasing a large quantity, and, under convoy of the doctor or head nurse

is so painful to us to hear of so dear a friend being in trouble, we sh.d should like to go over & nurse

Alcott had since visited him, perhaps in Washington, where Miss Alcott, like Whitman, was a hospital nurse

which is the chief literary glory of our country in the capitals of Europe—the book of the good gray nurse

Berlin), all the students, & superintendent of nurses.

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

The number of visits depending on the need & the competency of the nurse.

whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing