CHAPTER X.
HOSPITAL WORK.
Cairo—Incidents Preparatory to Removing Freedmen's Camp to Island No.
10—Death of a Child—Disbursing Supplies and other Mission Work on the
Island—Story of Uncle Stephen—Hospital Visiting in Memphis,
Tennessee—Surgeon Powers Reported—Forty Slaves come into Camp
Shiloh—Seven Slaves come from a Plantation seven miles below
Memphis—First Enlistment of Colored Soldiers—Mission Work in Columbus,
Kentucky—Young Colored Man Shot by his Young Master—Turning of
Tables—Return Home—Our Principal, E. A. Haight, Enlisted