Table of Contents:
  • I.: ...First call for volunteers
  • II.: ...Loyal women of the North ; Relief societies ; scraping lint and rolling bandages
  • III.: ...At the front ; Hospital arrangements
  • the sanitary commission
  • IV.: ...Home supplies for the soldiers
  • VI.: Terrible scenes on the battle-field
  • IX.: The Battle of Shiloh
  • X.: My visit to Washington in 1862 ; A convalescent camp
  • XI.: Life in a contraband camp ; Washington in 1865 ; Secretary Stanton
  • XII.: A trip down the Mississippi
  • XIII.: A regimental hospital
  • XIV.: Arrival at General Grants headquarters
  • XV.: Head cook in a field hospital ; Vicksburg
  • XVII.: ...The underground railroad
  • XVIII.: Our battery boys
  • XX.: The first great sanitary fair ; raising money for hospital relief
  • XXIII.: Sherman's march to the sea ; Surrender of Lee ; Assassination of President Lincoln
  • XXIV.: Mother Bickerdyke
  • XXVI.: Mother Bickerdyke and General Sherman
  • XXVII.: ...The Atlantacampaign
  • XXVIII.: My
  • (Con.) reminiscences of President Lincoln
  • XXX.: President Lincoln ; His inexhaustible humor
  • XXXI.: Heroism of soldiers' wives
  • XXXIV.: ...Life in camp ; Amusements ; Marching ; Foraging ; Picket duty
  • XXXV.: Soldiers' letters from the front ; Swamps of the Chickahominy
  • XXXVI.: Houskeeping in camp ; Rebel pickets
  • XXXVII.: Life in rebel prisons ;Andersonville ; Peace.