New-York tribune., 1899-06-13
TO ANNIE EARLY WHEELER
BOSTON EXTENDS IT'S CONSIDERATION.
LIKE THE REST OF AMERICA.
FIGHTING JOE" HAS TO SHARE hub" HoNoRs
WITH HIS PLUcKY DAUGHTER. WHO DEF1ED
YELLOW FEVER AT SANTIAGO.

WITH HIS PLUCKY DAUGHTER WHO DEFIED
YELLOW FEVER AT SANTIAGO.
Miss Annie Early Wheeler. whose career an
Army nurse attracted general attention spent last
week in Boston with her father and younger sister.
Miss Carrie Wheeler The plucky nurse shared
honors everywhere with Fighting joe" and The
Boston Sunday Post took occasion TO say: Miss
Wheeler is one Of the foremost young women Of
this end OF the century. one who ranks with Helen
Gould in the work done by women In the late war"
The two young women. each in her own way
striving relieve pain and sorrow. met at Mon
tauk where Miss Gould offered friendly sympathy
when the tragedy OF death by drowning cut on
the bright life OF Miss Wheeer's young brother.
Miss Wheeler the only non-immune allowed 10
go as nurse 10 Santiago. The immunes who went
there to nurse the soldiers not all trained
nurses The Assistant surgeon-General had told
Miss Wheeler that he considered II almost certain
death FOR her go. The ship on which she arrived
carried fifty trained nurses who were all barred out
Many persons in the town were already Ill with
yellow fever. General Miles, however. sent Miss
Wheeler word she might land II she persisted in
wanting to do so She did persist, and her first pa
tient her brother Joe" who was so Ill that IT
was thought he would not recover The minister
ing sister rode TO camp and back In her first days
Of work on a mans saddle. Later she was put In
charge OF the Santiago hospital or that time she
has said In a personal letter TO friend:
This the most Oeautltul, sacred anu precious
experience OF my whole life. ! shall always be de-
vouty and humbly thankful for having the oppor-
tunity OF rendering some slight service to those GAL
liant soldiers. whose patient endurance and noble
fortude, In those long, hot. asonzing fevered Gays
in the hospital simply beyond expression
1T was a wonderful privilege to be able to OBJ
serve the grand heroism OF my fellow-countrymen
The admiration and reverence which the hospital
taught me for the character OF the American SOL
dier-in the face Of any enemy-is to me priceless
treasure.
Il on my feet from o'clock In the morning
until late every night, and yet never knew an
ache or pain or sense Of heat or fatigue so
long as I had the privilege OF serving in the hos
ptas at Santiago and Montauk. l put my whole
heart and soul In my work as a prayer that Goo
Woul. spare my own beloved and was never un,
mindful Of the wonderful blessings OF having all
three of my come home safely
The General Assembly OF Alabama has recently
passed unique set of resolutions which convey the
acknowledgment OF the State TO this noble woman
for her brave Geeds and unexamped devotion 10 ner
country" They signed by the Governor OF the
State, the Speaker OF the House and the President
Of the Senate. ,
Miss Wheeler's election vice-president general
OF the Daughters OF the American Revolution OF her
own State was accepted by her with characteristic
simplicity. She said:
They generously made me a vice -president-gen- l.
eral which proves how much they all loved the sol
ders, and woul gladly have done better than |, II
they had had the opportunity and they nave no
way OF showing IL now, except confer this honor
fortune to be personal witness to the heroism OF
our soldiers"