THREE YEARS
IN
FIELD HOSPITALS.
THREE YEARS
IN
FIELD HOSPITALS
OF THE
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
BY
MRS. H.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1867.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.
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INTRODUCTION.
This simple story of hospital scenes, and theunpretending sketches of the few brave soldiersto which they allude, is arranged from the meagernotes which were hurriedly written at thetime they occurred, when there was not themost remote idea of ever preparing them forpublication.
The events of the war are “graven as with aniron pen” upon my memory. To preserve someslight memento of them for friends at home, wasthe primary object of these notes: to gratify thesame persons are they now grouped together.
Mrs. H.
Upper Merion,
Montgomery County, Penna.,
October 1, 1866.
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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Antietam—Hospitals—Frederick City—Virginia—Breaking up of theHospitals—Moving North with the Army | 9 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Battle of Gettysburg—The Wounded—Incidents in Hospital—SanitaryCommission Work—The Flag on “Round Top” | 38 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Campaign of 1864—Port Royal—White House—City Point | 58 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| First Visit to Annapolis—Stories of Starved Men—Burialat Andersonville—Neely’s Life in the Dungeon of CastleThunder—Sergeant Kerker—Captains Wilson and Sheltonin the “Iron Cage,” in Buncombe County, Tenn.—TheBoy and the Flag—Gould’s returning Consciousness—Mr.Brown in Danville Prison | 91 |
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THREE YEARS IN FIELD HOSPITALS.