Part 126 (1/2)

The Braddock House...old chairs and desks: Freeman, The Boys in White, p. 37.

the Patent Office...transformed into a hospital ward: NR, June 27 and September 2, 1862.

”a curious scene...pavement under foot”: Walt Whitman, quoted in NYT, February 26, 1863.

the Methodist Episcopal Church on 20th Street: NR, June 18, 1862.

covering pews...laboratory and kitchen: NR, June 23, 1862.

more than three thousand patients: NR, April 11, 1862.

baskets of fruit...pillows of wounded men: NYTrib, August 13, 1862 (quote); Ellet, The Court Circles of the Republic, p. 526; AL to Hiram P. Barney, August 16, 1862, in CW, V, pp. 37778.

One wounded soldier...signature: MTL to ”Mrs. Agen,” August 10, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 179.

of ”commanding stature...for it so eagerly”: Alcott, Hospital Sketches, pp. 8992, 99100, 103, 104.

”singularly cool...(full of maggots)”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, October 6, 1863, in Whitman, The Wound Dresser, pp. 12324.

”heap of feet”...hospital grounds: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, December 29, 1862, in ibid., p. 48.

she found it difficult...”wounded occupant”: Alcott, Hospital Sketches, p. 59.

”Death itself...such a relief”: Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman, August 25, 1863, in Whitman, The Wound Dresser, p. 104.

”was so blackened”...eventually recovered: Amanda Stearns to her sister, May 14, 1863, reprinted in Amanda Akin Stearns, The Lady Nurse of Ward E (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), pp. 2526 (quote p. 25).

Another youth...”on the Judgment Day”: Alcott, Hospital Sketches, pp. 6263 (quote p. 63).

”If she were worldly wise...many journals”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 48.

”While her sister-women...the White House”: Ames, Ten Years in Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 237.

Mary continued...work discreetly: Chicago Tribune, July 4, 1872; Mary Elizabeth Ma.s.sey, Bonnet Brigades (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 44.

”our ever-bountiful benefactress & friend”: NR, December 27, 1861.

”an angel of mercy”: NR, June 27, 1862.