Chapter I: Introduction

This simple story of hospital scenes, and the unpretending sketches of the few brave soldiers to which they allude, is arranged from the meager notes which were hurriedly written at the time they occurred, when there was not the most remote idea of ever preparing them for publication.

The events of the war are “graven as with an iron pen” upon my memory. To preserve some slight memento of them for friends at home, was the primary object of these notes: to gratify the same persons are they now grouped together.

MRS. H.

UPPER MERION,
Montgomery County, Penna.,
_October 1, 1866_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Antietam—Hospitals—Frederick City—Virginia—Breaking
up of the Hospitals—Moving North with the Army 9

CHAPTER II.

Battle of Gettysburg—The Wounded—Incidents in Hospital—Sanitary
Commission 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—Burial
at Andersonville—Neely’s Life in the Dungeon of Castle
Thunder—Sergeant Kerker—Captains Wilson and Shelton
in the “Iron Cage,” in Buncombe County, Tenn.—The
Boy and the Flag—Gould’s returning Consciousness—Mr.
Brown in Danville Prison 91

THREE YEARS IN FIELD HOSPITALS.