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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, A heroine and martyr. (search)
ble her to fulfil the duty which she felt she owed to its gallant defenders. From the first she had wielded her eloquent pen in its behalf, and early in the spring of 1862, she determined to consecrate herself to the work of caring specially for the sick and wounded soldiers. Her first experiences of hospital life were in the Baltimore hospitals, where she contracted the measles, and was sick for some time. Thence she went to Lexington, Ky., when it was in the possession of the rebel General E. Kirby Smith. Her loyalty blazed out even while under the sway of the rebels. Thence she went to St. Louis) where, after some time spent in the hospitals, she proceeded down the river in a hospital steamer to bring up the sick and wounded soldiers from Vicksburg and other points. After two of these trips, in which she went beyond her strength in her zeal for the poor suffering soldiers, she returned to St. Louis, to endeavor to recover her health, sadly impaired by her labors, and would vi