Identifier: mystoryofwarwoma00live (find matches)
Title: My story of the war : a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union Army : and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion : with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary services of the war
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission Flags -- United States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 War work
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : A.D. Worthington and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WOMEN OF THE WAR.
FAMOUS NURSES OF UNION SOLDIERS

" A DAY AT THE ROOMS " 163

There was always more or less volunteer and tran-
sient help in the rooms. Sometimes companies of
ladies, who gave their services on certain days; some-
times young girls, who caught the patriotic spirit o
the time, and craved a share in the work; some-
times detailed soldiers fi-om Camp Douglas, doing
guard duty over rebel prisoners; sometimes conva-
lescent soldiers from the hospitals, who sought to
dispose of the lagging hours while awaiting trans-
portation to their regiments. There was never any
lack of employment. The rush of business lasted all
day and ran over into the midnight. We frequently
took letters to our homes requiring immediate answer,
and in the stillness of the night overtook the work
that outran our most diligent efforts during the day.
Not even could we control the hours of Sunday
during those busy years. The work of hospital
relief ran over into them, and busy scenes were some-
times enacted at the " rooms," of which the closed
doors gave no hint to the thronging church-goers.
" It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."

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