The National tribune., 1884-07-10
THE NATIONAL TRIBNE WASHINGTON D. G. THURSDAY july TO- ISL

mind which hope he may be enabled some day
to execute. 1t is tha! biography of Miss Carroll,
with an account of her public services. may be
printed and a copy placed IN every public library
of the land.
An effort is being made here Cor Miss Carroli's
case TO be brought before the consideration OF the
G. A. X. Mt the Grand EsIcanipnent in July. Reso-
lutions are already in preparation. and thus the
soldiers VIII have an opportunity to speak In the
cause of justice and patriotism, such as Is prob
able that in their lives will never occur again.
ABBTE Nj. GANsETT, Maiden, Mass
OUR ARMY NURSES.
At a meeting of the Union Army Nurses
Association, Mrs. Harriet p. Dame, President,
recently held in this city, Judge A. j. Willard,
of South Carolina, made an address, III the
course of which he said:
No soldier who fought in the of the rebellion
could tell more thrilling story of personal expert
enees than could some of those ladies who were
guests at that reception. Two of them were once
detailed TO go TO Wilmington N. O., and meet the
1909 prisoners who were returning from Southern
prisons The long, dark hair of one of the two
ladies turned white within SIX weeks from the
shock to her nerves occasioned by the horrors
which she saw She was not so years old These
two delicate women. with shattered nerves
and falling health are fighting the battle OF lue
with the same brave spirit with which they came
to the aid of their country in 1851 He is cold
hearted man who can hear the story of their expe-
rienees without emotion. One of them now re-
ceives $40 n month in of the Departments; the
other, no was friend of William Cullen Bryant
and was of his family before the war, is now a
homeopathic physician.
On the night that Gen Fitz-Joirn Porter thought
" 1t was too dark and rainy to march, Miss Dame,
another of these Union army nurses, walked all
night. friend of Miss Dame tells the story in
this way: THE New Hampshire regiments had
made change of base, and left her to pack medi-
cines and come on in ambulance the next day.
Miss Dame got through her work, and two sol
dlers going to walk on that night, she joined
them. 1t WAS dark and drizzly. They went on
the railroad track, army wagons going at the side.
After walking 10 miles they came to broken
bridge. The men lay down and slept in their rub
graph pole until dawn. Then they crossed the
river In boat and came TO a deserted battle
field, where wounded and dead Confederate
soldiers. They lifted out the wounded men and
put them under shelter Miss Dame was the Good
Samaritan who bound mp their wounds and left
them under the care of some one, That day she
was taken prisoner near Centreville and put in a
guarded tent. One of the Confederate soldiers put
his head in the tent and said, Well, Sis, you came
too far down in Dixie this time didn't you? No,
said she; i am going TO Richmond
Miss Dame was put TO work in Confederate
hospital and kind surgeon assisted her to escape
and join her New Hampshire regiments. This il
only episode in her eventful life"
The story of these women has not been written
although they have occasionally been remembered
in poetry. The first stanza of a short poem by
Sybil." a Washington poetess, asks a pertinent
question:
We hear of men and heroes
Whose flashing swords are keen,
Who on the field of battle
Drink from the same canteen;'
Who at the post of danger
With front unbroken stand,
And in her hour of peril
Will guard our native land.
But who will tell the story
Of Loves submest law,
OF choicest treasures given
By Women of the War?'"