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of surgery has reached a higher degree of skill and excellence
than was ever before known; if under these conditions the
United States, with all the resources, financial and material at
her command, has been unable to keep disease and death away

from Chickamauga, how in Heavens name I ask you, could
the impoverished Confederacy have been expected to keep them
away from Andersonville in 1864 ! In the light of the history
of Chickamauga in 1898. Andersonville in 1864, stands abso-

lutely vindicated.

A NORTHERN WAR NURSE.

The most famous Sister of Charity who went out with the
Northern Army was probably Sister Anthony of Cincinnati, who
accompanied the hospital corps of the army of General Eose-
crantz. She was a fine business woman, a tender nurse, and
the possessor of that mysterious power which is called personal
magnetism. After the close of the war, so great and general
was her reputation, that two gentlemen of Cincinnati, not of
her faith, presented her with the magnificent Samaritan Hospi-
tal of that city, as a mark of their high appreciation of her
character. The only draw-back she ever felt was from her looks.
She was as homely as the Lord ever made a woman. On one
occasion when caring for the sick and wounded in the hospital,
she went to a meat market in Cincinnati, to buy a few chickens.
She complained about the high price. The dealer made some
rough remark, to which she paid no attention. Then he used
more rough language, and as she persisted, money being scarce,
he said finally, "Oh take them along for anything. You are so

—d d ugly I cannot talk to you any more. If you were good look-

ing I would talk an hour."