{"id":14279,"date":"2022-04-08T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2021-07-08T05:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:44:54","slug":"ladies-willing-to-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/ladies-willing-to-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies willing to serve."},"content":{"rendered":"<address><em>Jane Stuart Woolsey to Mother in Washington.<\/em><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Thursday Evening.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Mother:<\/em> Your letter, or rather Georgeanna&#8217;s, Eliza\u2019s check, etc., arrived this morning, with the important item inscribed, as usual, on the flap and disfigured in opening. We are very sorry to hear that Hatty doesn\u2019t get on faster. Perhaps if, instead of a \u201cgood old soul&#8221; of a doctor, she had an enlightened young one, she might get sooner rid of her sore throat. I believe much more devoutly in modern than in ancient doctors . . .<\/p>\n<p>Sarah, Abby, Carry, Miss Parsons, Charley and Robert have all gone to the \u201cReception\u201d of the Cumberland\u2019s men to-night. It was time to show some interest in them. The Chamber of Commerce has got this up. I hope it will be a success. You remember the officer calling to the half-drowning men, \u201cShall we give her another broadside, boys?\u201d and the \u201cAye, aye, sir,\u201d and the final volley, as the water rushed in at the portholes. We have had two visits lately from Prof. Hitchcock on the subject of a ladies\u2019 committee of visiting; auxiliary to the gentlemen\u2019s committee of the New England Soldiers Relief Association. He asked us to collect some names of ladies willing to serve (visiting only), and we have enrolled six or eight: Mrs. Gurden Buck, Mrs. H. B. Smith, Miss Annie Potts, Margaret Post, etc., etc. I fancy there will be little to do really, as there is a resident superintendent and wife, and, I believe, nurses, in the house corner of John st. and Broadway. You will see the details of the arrangement in the papers. . . .<\/p>\n<p>All the flags are out again for the Western victories and the Western heroes. Col. Bissell, the officer who <em>made a river<\/em> 12 miles long to flank the rebel position, is Mrs. Dr. Parker\u2019s brother, a man of extraordinary energy and perseverance. .. .<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Bacon told Sarah that Frank had 700 sick men under his care and made a point of seeing every man every day, so never wrote, leaving that business to Theodore. We sent, him and Mr. Withers each, another bundle of papers by the last mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Stuart Woolsey to Mother in Washington. Thursday Evening. Dear Mother: Your letter, or rather Georgeanna&#8217;s, Eliza\u2019s check, etc., arrived this morning, with the important item inscribed, as usual, on the flap and disfigured in opening. We are very sorry to hear that Hatty doesn\u2019t get on faster. Perhaps if, instead of a \u201cgood old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jane-Stewart-Woolsey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}