A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale.

  • Edge, Frederick Milnes.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    confined merely to visiting and supplying hospitals: as usual after an engagement, it established kitchens and sleeping tents on the field, where the less grievously wounded might be attended to and fed until preparations were made to remove them. One of these lodges, as they are termed by the Commission, was managed at Gettysburg by two ladies, and one of them wrote her experience of three weeks' duty on the occasion in question, which has since been published.* I propose to make a few extracts from this very interesting little tract. Here is a description of how pre- parations were made for the work before them:— On the day that the railway bridge was repaired we moved up to the depot, close by the town, and had things in perfect order ; first-rate camping ground, in a large field directly by the track, Mith unlimited supply of delicious, cool water. Here we set up two stoves with four large boilers, always kept full of soup and coffee, watched by four or five black men, who did the cooking under our direction, and sang (not under our direction) at the top of theu' voices all the day, Oh darkies hab you seen my massa When this cruel war is over. * Three n-eelis at Gettysburg. New York, Randolph, 1863. This was written as a private letter to a friend, and jiot in- tended for publication. F