Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac

A personal wartime memoir recounts volunteer relief and nursing work with Soldiers' Aid Societies and the Sanitary Commission, chronicling care in field hospitals after major engagements such as Antietam and Gettysburg. It describes organizing supplies, feeding and tending wounded soldiers, searching for missing men, and the emotional toll on caregivers and families. Later sections follow campaigns, hospital evacuations, visits to military prisons with accounts of starvation and confinement, and reflections on burial, sanitary challenges, and the practical labor of sustaining medical operations in mobile army hospitals.