Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-14

Mrs. Rebecca Lane Price, president of
the National Association of Army
Nurses, who is to attend the forty
ninth annual encampment of the G. A.
r. as a guest of honor. is regarded as
one of the most vigorous women of
Grand Army circles, and one of the
most beloved.
Her home is at Lancaster. Pa. She is
an honorary member of the G.. A. r.
post at Phoenixville, Pa. in which viii
lage Mrs. Price, soon after her mar
riage, opened rooms over her husbands
store, where she and other women
made articles for the sanitary commits
sion during the war.
Mrs Price before her marriage wa:
Miss Pennypacker, of the old Pennsyl-
vania family, of whom $50 served in
the civil war, three of the number be-
ing women who enlisted as nurses
Mrs. Prices career as a nurse was
notable one. For her acts of mercy
she today receives a pension by spe-
cial act of Congress.
1000 Men on Tented Field.
In December, 1862. she nursed a tile
Windmill Point field hospital in Vir-
ginia, which at times during that win
ter had as many as 1000 men in tents
on the field. She stayed until the hos
-pital was abandoned after the battle
of Gettysburg and then started for that
field. s,:a went by way of Baltimore
in a cattle car There was only one
train a day from Baltimore. She ar
rived upon the field before the dead
had been removed and at once began
her work.
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until there was no further need. Later
phia.
Mrs. Price has many interesting
stories to tell of her experiences. When
she went to Gettysburg she was in
trusted with two tons of supplies.
Going from Baltimore in the cattle car.
she sat upon a box, arriving about 2
o'clock in the morning, and going to a
house, she tried to sleep, but the ex-
citenent was too much, so she started
with companion toward the battle
field, which they could easily find by
following the stencil. The dead soldiers
had not all been removed, and none of
the horses, and the weather, it being
July. extremely hot.
Nothing daunted, they kept on, and
soon were overtaken by an ambulance.
Mrs. Price hailed the driver and asked
if nurses were needed on the field. He
did not wait to CHOOSE his words, but
hastily drawing rein, said: Yes, for
Gods sake get in" Arriving. she was
met by doctor under whom she had
nursed in Virginia, and also by Dr.
Wilson. 4
Journeys Over Perilous Roads.
While Mrs. Price was nursing at
Windmill Point, on the Potomac, a
large box of supplies was sent to her
from Phoenixville. Pa, for the Phoenix-
willie soldiers, who were stationed
across the river at Belle Plain.
She crossed the river. found an am
bulance which was to carry her to her
destina ton, and set out over the worst
roads which the imagination can con-
jure up. for there are none like them
now, even in the swamps. She declares
logs had been dropped in the road side
by side. and over these obstacles and
into the ruts. with mud everywhere,
the mule team dragged the ambu-
lance. At last the camp was reached,
and the tired woman. with every inch
of her body sore from the awful JOLT
ing, gave, the tokens OF love to the
boys from her home town.
Tears Of Rejoicing for Her. =,
There. was rejoicing. and-yes-tears,
but they were tears of joy. There was
no possible way of returning that
night to the hospital, SO Mrs. Price was