The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-08-19

Only as Survivors Listed
With Union FOres-List In.
cludes Only Those Draw
ing Pensions
Washington Aug. 10. --(AP)-
Nurses who served in the Civil War.
like the heroes to whom they minis
tered. are growing fewer as the con-
flict fades into history.
Of 1000 nurses who served with
the Union forces government records
disclose the names of but as sur
vivors. The list is admittedly incom-
plete. for it includes only those
drawing pensions for their service.
In Civil War times army records
were kept less carefully than today.
toned, or were listed only by first
names which came to the attention Of
record-keepers through some out.
standing act of mercy or her0ism.
Not Profession Then
Nursing was not yet q profession
in the sixties. It was the need dis
brought about the establishment of
the first schools for training nurses.
A great deal of the burden had to
be borne by the Catholic sistcrhoods.
Hurridely trained volunteers were
also recruited.
Many Of these had independent
means, others who felt the need of
pensions in later years were unable
to establish records to meet the legal
requirements.
Dorothea L. Dix, who served with
out pay, headed the government
nurses, under an appointment which
made her Superintendent of Female
Nurses. Many young and eager vol
untcers were rejected by her, but
they found a place in the volunteer
ranks. These included Clara Har-
lowe Barton, who later was to or
ganize the American Red Cross, and
!! Amelia Barlow.
The Confederacy acclaimed Ella X.
Newsom, wealthy and beautiful widow
who spent fortune in her work, as
"Dixie's Florence Nightingale
Mrs. McClellan's Record
The thinning ranks include some
like Mrs. Wade Mcclellan, whose
name does not appear in the pension
records. She bore her first child at
Gettysburg, Pa, during the battle
there. A month later she entered the
service Of the Union as nurse on
the bat&lefields. Later she went to
Emery Hospital at Washington to
serve. Now, at SO, she lives in Car
roll, Iowa, where she is active in the
Woman's Relief Corps.
OF those on the pension roll, prob
ably the most widely known, judg-
ing from available records, is Cor
nelia Hancock, now Of Atlantic City.
She was trained at Philadelphia and
ministered To the wounded at the
front during the long campaign of
the Army of the Potomac in l864-65.
Those Listed
Others on the roll and the states
in which they reside include:
Illinois: Clarissa Crossman. Julia
Mccarthy. Irene d. Cook of Chicago;
Addie Emery of Pontiac; Eliza Pyle
of Norris City; Kate Mclaughlin of
Quincy: Mary G. Upton Of Vera.
Pennsylvania: Mary Ann Adams,
Of Reading; Marie Louise Topping Of
Pittsburgh,
Rhode Island: Mary Ann Atkinson
Of Newport.
Massachusetts,: Ada A. Brewster
of Kingston.
Maryland: Amelia c. Blodgett.
Rosina Johnson, Frances A. Naille
of Baltimore.
Ohio: Hattie Brubaker of St.
Paris.
California: Helen M. Burnell of
San Diego; Margaret Hayes. Lydia
A. Patch and Ellen N. Sheldon of Los
Angeles.
Indiana: Mary Brady Of Indian
apolis; Sister NJ. de Sales and Sis
ter M. Paula Of Notre Dame; Mary
E. Miller Of Logansport.
boygan Falls.
Maine: Emily W. Dana OF Port
land.
District Of Columbia: Lucretia
Davis Of Takoma Park; Maria Page.
New York: Maria Eldred of Can
ton.
West Virginia: Jane Farrelly
of Wheeling.
Louisiana: Gerantine Hayes of
New Orleans: Amanda Wright of
Lake Providence.
Oklahoma: Sarah E. Ingraham Of
| wyoming: Sylvia Housiaux Of
Douglas.
Alabama: Eliza Jones Of Hunts
vile.
Florida: Jennie N. Kennedy Of
Bagdad
Kansas: Mary McCary, Mamie
G. Martin. Caledonia Vaughn of
Topeka. Maria NJ. Moran Of Salina.
Kentucky: Bridget Murphy Of
Ashland.
Michigan: Roma I. Miner Of st.
Charles.
Mississippi: Rose Russell Of
vickshnrg.
Missouri: Catherinef Thomas Of
s.. Louis: Nsry j.. Watson Of La
mar. IN y
New Jsrssy: Li1sis Walcott Of
RutAerford.
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