Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Writing to Maria T. Hersey of Portland, Adeline M. Walker, a Portland native serving as a nurse at the U.S. General Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, reported on a brief respite she had when the hospital was temporarily fairly empty.
Many of the new patients, she wrote, had died -- nearly all of typhoid pneumonia.
Hersey was secretary of the R.F. Society, a group of young women in Portland who sent aid to ill and injured soldiers. Walker was writing to thank her and the Portland group for a box that had arrived while Walker was on a break from the hospital.
She wrote, "Wish you could hear all the fine things said about your beautiful Union Quilt. I called the ladies into my room and a Council of War was held over the ingeniously-constructed work..."
Walker concluded her letter, "It is a privilege to be working on the right side in a contest like this."
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About This Item
- Title: Adeline Walker on conditions at Annapolis hospital, 1863
- Creator: Adeline M. Walker
- Creation Date: 1863-04-14
- Subject Date: 1863
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Annapolis, MD
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13.2 cm
- Local Code: Coll. S-307, Misc. Box 11/8
- Collection: R. F. Society records
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Hospitals--Maryland--Annapolis
- Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Military medicine
- Nurses--Maryland--Annapolis
- Relief (Aid)
- United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care
- War--Relief of sick and wounded
- Women--Societies and clubs--Maine--Portland
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