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Rh of each, which would bring this work to unreasonable length, the following list of these brave women is offered.

Mrs. Eliza C. Porter, of the noble band of western women who devoted kind thought and untiring exertion to the care of our country's defenders.

Mrs. John Harris, the wife of a Philadelphia physician, who was at the front all during the war, and who returned home an invalid for the rest of her life from the effects of a sunstroke, received while in attendance on a field hospital in Virginia.

Margaret Elizabeth Breckenridge, who said at the opening of the conflict, "I shall never be satisfied till I get right into a hospital to live until the war is over," and who fulfilled this lofty ambition in her work in the hospitals in and around St. Louis during all the long and bloody conflict.

Mrs. Stephen Barker, wife of the chaplain of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, who went to the front with her husband and, for nearly two years, continued in unremitting attendance upon the regimental hospitals.

Amy M. Bradley who, having gone South to seek her own health, remained during the four years of the war, nursing her fellow-countrymen of the North.

Mrs. Arabella G. Barlow, of New Jersey, sealed her devotion to her country's cause by the sublimest sacrifice of which woman is capable, and after nursing her wounded husband until his death, remained to care for the other soldiers until she died of fever contracted while in attendance in the hospitals of the army of the Potomac.

Mrs. Nellie Maria Taylor who, though living in that part of the country which had borne the rank weeds of secession, proved her loyalty and patriotism in the care of Union soldiers at her own house.