hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 32 4 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience. You can also browse the collection for Eliza C. Porter or search for Eliza C. Porter in all documents.

Your search returned 18 results in 2 document sections:

L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
nted Margaret E. Breckinridge of St. Louis, will be readily recalled. During Grant's Vicksburg campaign, as well as after Rosecrans' battles of Stone River and Chickamauga, there were many of these heroic women who braved all discomforts and difficulties to bring healing and comfort to the gallant soldiers who had fallen on the field. Mrs. Hoge and Mrs. Livermore, of Chicago, visited Grant's camp in front of Vicksburg, more than once, and by their exertions, saved his army from scurvy; Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Bickerdyke, and several others are deserving of mention for their untiring zeal both in these and Sherman's Georgian campaigns. Mrs. Bickerdyke has won undying renown throughout the Western armies as pre-eminently the friend of the private soldier. As our armies, especially in the West and Southwest, won more and more of the enemy's territory, the important towns of which were immediately occupied as garrisons, hospital posts, and secondary bases of the armies, the work of nursi
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
near Washington a patriotic family Mrs. Eliza C. Porter, the subject of the following sketch, i call me everywhere. Yours, etc., closer>Eliza C. Porter. In illustration of her services at t all sides. Not less grateful were they to Mrs. Porter. Again she says: The failing and faif statement of the labors and sacrifices of Mrs. Porter which were not intermitted until the close work, being joined, New Year's eve, by Mrs. Eliza C. Porter, who thenceforward was her constant ass the opening of spring, Mrs. Bickerdyke and Mrs. Porter returned to Huntsville and superintended thxt day. On the 16th of May she and her associate Mrs. Porter proceeded at once to the Field Hospitass resolution. The diary of her associate, Mrs. Porter, is full of allusions to the extraordinary supply department of its hospitals, she and Mrs. Porter, who still accompanied her, established they Corps was assigned to Mrs. Bickerdyke and Mrs. Porter, and was performed, says Mrs. Barker, who h[7 more...]