Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-09

most exhausting and valuable character
and were highly appreciated by the men.
She remained In the field hospital until the
establishment Of general hospital at Camp
Letterman, where she assisted In the care
OF the wounded for several weeks longer
the soldiers of the Sd Division voting her a
SILVER medal as an expression OF their APP
probation of her services In October fol-
lowing. proceeding to Washington Miss
Hancock offered her services In the Contra
band Hospital and was there employed until
FeDruary, 1854, when, in obedience to a
summons from the surgeon in charge at
Brandy Station, she went to that place the
medal given her at Gettysburg securing her
q pass from the Secretary of War and prov
subordinate officials
At Brandy station the men built her a
log house, and she ministe cred In various
ways to the comfort of the sick and wound
ca. she remained here until April, when
she returned to Philadelphia.
In May commenced that Series or +arr,-
BILE battles which terminated In the over
throw OF the rebellion. AS soon as the news
reached the north Miss Hancock at once
left for Washington. Several applications
war Department for permit for her to
60 to the front. Each was refused as be-
ing unsafe and improper. But with a wo-
mans tact she made application to go as
plan succeeding, she proceeded to Belle
Plain, where she arrived on the 10th Of
May, 1864. There were at this time sew
eraI Thousand men-soldiers, prisoners OF
war and wounded-lying for the most part
on the open hillside or among the low tim
Der filling the ravines Going promntlv
ashore, she addressed herself vigorously to
the work in hand, making coffee ami fur
nishing the sufferers as far as possible with
Iood With the earliest opportunity she
passed on in an ambulance, and was the
nrst woman from the north to enter Fred
ertcksburg, where some thousands of
wounded were already congregated Here
she remained fer a fortnight laboring night
and day In aid Of the suffering
On the 2Sth Of May, 1864, all our wounded
having been sent to Washington Miss
Hancock, with another female nurse. set
out on march with the army. ministering,
while en- route, to the comfort of some
Union prisoners who had been nearly three
weeks in the Wilderness and were almost
starved. On the I'd of June, 1864, having
reached White House Landing. she again
became actively employed, being frequently
while engaged exposed to the shells of the
enemy. 'In one instance" she writes, "a
rifed cannon ball passed between Mrs.
Husbands and myself, and shell at an
other time struck the rear of the carriage
l was in"
City Point, Miss Hancock. with three men
as assistants, took charge of one of the
division ..ospitals at that place, remaining
thus employed until September. when she
returned to Philadelphia, Pa, on a hospital
transport In October, however, she again
went to City Point, where she remained
during the following winter, iaboring in the
well-organized hospitals, which were es-
tablfshed toward the close Of the war
After the fall of Richmond she visited that
city. and active operations having ceased
she proceeded to alexandria, where hos
pitaf was established for those soldiers who
might be exhausted on the homeward
march Here she remained a fortnight,
when. her services being no longer needed,
she fnaIly quit the field, endeavoring to
forget the fearful scenes which II had been
her lot to witness, ard happy In the refiec-
tion that she had done what she could to
alleviate the sufferfnss by which she had
been 30 long surrounded