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Born
katherine was born on january 14 1830, in england, United Kingdom. -
United States
she was transported to the united states at the age of 18 along with her family. -
Commission came into existence
Starting a few months after the war started. -
United States Sanitary Commission
founded to support sick and injured soldiers Katharine Wormeley, Georgeanna Woolsey, and Eliza Woolsey Howland served as union nurses they were incredable peole with experience and the dedicated. -
Work
she was born in england but moved to newport and become weathly with her mother, as she began to work. -
Women and the Peninsula Campaign
It lasted 9 weeks but lots of lives were lost during this time. her amd her sisters Georgeanna Woolsey and Eliza Woolsey Howland served as agents of the united states Sanitary Commission on hospital transport ships during the civil war. -
letter to "A"
Dear A., — You will see my letter to mother, which gives an account of the removal of the depot at White House. We left last evening at the last moment, and rendezvoused for the night off West Point. Captain Sawtelle sent us off early from there with despatches for Fortress Monroe. This gave us the special fun of being the first to come leisurely into the panic then raging at Yorktown. The “Small” was instantly surrounded by terror-stricken boats; the people of the big “St. Mark” leaned over the -
letter to mother
Dear Mother, — We arrived here yesterday to hear the thunder of the battle[1] and to find the army just approaching this landing. Last night it was a verdant shore; to-day it is a dusty plain. The feelings with which we came up the James River I can’t describe, our anxiety, excitement, and breathless desire to know something were so great. Not a vessel was in sight after we left Newport News, except the “Canonicus,” Quartermaster’s Department boat, which was just ahead of us. No one could guess -
another letter to "A"
Dear A., — As I write I glance from time to time at the Army of the Potomac, massed on the plain before me, —- an army driven from its position because it could not get reinforcements to render that position tenable; forced every day of its retreat to turn and give battle; an army just one third less than it was: and yet it comes in from seven days’ fighting, marching, fasting, in gallant spirits, and making the proud boast for itself and its commander that it has not only marched with its face -
from chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay, Friday, July 4.
While I was writing the above letter Mr. Olmsted came out from a long interview with Dr. Letterman, the new Medical Director, in which the latter had urged him to go to Washington and see and advise the Surgeon-General about the state of things here. So Colonel and Mrs. M. were put on board the “Daniel Webster” (then loading to sail that night), we took Mrs. Trotter in exchange, Doctors Ware, Coolidge, and Jenkins were left on the “Elizabeth” to misery and busines -
another letter to mother
Dear Mother, — For the last two hours I have been watching President Lincoln and General McClellan as they sat together, in earnest conversation, on the deck of a steamer close to us. I am thankful, I am happy, that the President has come, — has sprung across that dreadful intervening Washington, and come to see and hear and judge for his own wise and noble self.
While we were at dinner some one said, chancing to look through a window: “Why, there’s the President!” and he proved to be just arriv -
letter to "A"
Dear A., — This morning I went ashore with Mrs. Barlow (Arabella, wife of the General) without orders and, indeed, without permission. But Mrs. Barlow offered to take me, Mr. Olmsted was not on board, and I was so anxious to see for myself the state of things that I could not forego the chance. The hospital occupies the Harrison House, called Berkley (how familiar all those names are to you and me!), and a barn, out-buildings, and several tents at the rear, containing, or I should say able to co -
letter to mother
Dear Mother,—I wrote this morning by Dr. Ware, who left us on the mail-boat, that I should start for home to-morrow morning. Meantime our plans are changed. A flag-of-truce came down to-day to the “Maritanza,” requesting us to go up and get our wounded who were left along the line of march, — four thousand of them, it is said. So the whole hospital fleet is to run five miles up the river, under convoy of the gunboats, to Haxall’s or Carter’s Landing. We are all ready, and waiting the order to st -
letter to her friend fom R.I
Dear Friend, — I have slept in my own bed! or, rather, I did not sleep, — I lay awake thinking of a poor Southern fellow who said to me one morning: “I could n’t sleep, ma’am, for thinking how comfortable I was!”
We left Harrison’s Landing on Thursday in the “Daniel Webster,” with two hundred and thirty sick on board. At Fortress Monroe Mrs. Griffin came off from the “Euterpe”[1] to ask me to take her cousin, a captain in the regular army, to his friends in Newport. We had some difficulty in get -
Supplies needed from july 1 to august 31 1862
they need lots of supplies for all of the wounded soldiers coming straight from the battle firled of the U.S Army during war. -
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time works
she did 40 volumes , she was the best known translators of her time, translated from the French language the complete works of Honoré de Balzac for american leaders. -
Died
she died at 78 years old. She died her summer home in Jackson, New Hampshire.She is buried in the Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.
