THE author of this most interesting and historic volume, Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, I very often met whilst on my frequent visits to the headquarters of my husband, General Ulysses S. Grant.

She there on her mission of mercy as she came to the front with supplies for the sick and wounded; I there simply to give the general a glimpse of his dear ones (some of the children being always with me). And I would gladly have joined Mrs. Wittenmyer in all her works of devotion; but the general forbade it, saying, when I returned from the hospitals ladened with petitions and heart-breaking stories, “Julia, cease, cease; I cannot listen; I hear this all day, every day, and I must have some rest from all this sorrow and misery. If you insist on going again to the hospitals, I will have to send you home.”

Mrs. Wittenmyer was ever deeply interested in her efforts to relieve suffering; ever appealing for the discharge of the brave men who were made helpless by their wounds; ever braving dangers and enduring hardships in the performance of her self-assumed, patriotic heart duties.

I used to look upon this brave, heroic woman with profound respect and admiration, which, if it were possible, has grown the greater in the thirty years that have passed since then.

JULIA DENT GRANT.

2108 R Street, Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 27, 1894.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
A Boy sent by Express, C. O. D.[ 5]
A But’ful Guv’ment Mule[ 226]
A Fighting Editor[ 86]
A Painful Accident[ 128]
A Perilous Ride[ 11]
A Rich Reward for Services—Saving the Life of a Brother[ 72]
A Terrible Storm at Chattanooga[ 51]
A Visit from General Grant and General McPherson[ 174]
A Visit to Parson Brownlow[ 68]
A Visit to Captain Walke’s Gunboat[ 190]
A Woman wounded in Battle[ 17]
A Young Nurse at Gettysburg[ 224]
Army Life at Helena, Arkansas[ 48]
Army Tricks[ 41]
Blowing up of Fort Hill[ 102]
Braving Dangers[ 21]
Bursting of a Shell behind my Carriage[ 131]
Could you get me a Raw Onion and some Salt?[ 230]
Exhibitions of Mother-love[ 142]
Fred D. Grant—The Brave Orderly at Vicksburg[ 204]
General Grant’s Kindness[ 43]
Getting Two Thousand Sick and Wounded out of Helena[ 106]
Hardships of Camp-life at Vicksburg[ 125]
Healed Soul and Body[ 152]
He died cheering the Flag[ 237]
Hospital Abuses—Putting Logwood in the Coffee[ 193]
How I got the Cotton[ 244]
How Mother Bickerdyke cut Red Tape[ 82]
How Pres. Lincoln received the News of Sheridan’s Victory[ 239]
I have the Best Mother in the World[ 160]
I have the Comforter[ 98]
Johnnie Clem[ 36]
Liberty Hicks[ 181]
Meeting a Rebel Woman at Nashville[ 134]
Memorial Day[ 272]
Men who commanded Themselves and did not swear[ 232]
My First Interview with General Grant[ 1]
Not Time to send for the Colonel[ 66]
Reminiscences of General Grant[ 202]
Running the Blockade at Vicksburg[ 92]
Saved by a Bird[ 78]
Saved by Lemonade[ 62]
Saving the Life of Young Pike[ 170]
Searching for the Dead[ 164]
Secretary Stanton’s Generous Gift[ 251]
Sharing Poor Quarters with Dorothy L. Dix[ 120]
The American Republic—its Glories and its Dangers[ 268]
The Clock at Vicksburg[ 115]
The First Soldiers wounded in the Civil War[ 89]
The Hospitals of Vicksburg at the Time of the Surrender[ 186]
The Hospital at Point of Rocks, Va.[ 209]
The New York Herald Reporter who lived for Two Worlds[ 156]
The Sad Fate of Jennie Wade[ 206]
The Sequel to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”[ 247]
The Special-diet Kitchen Work[ 259]
The Surrender of Vicksburg[ 147]
The Sweet Singer of the Hospitals[ 217]
The Wonderful Potato-patch[ 58]
Trading Tobacco for Coffee[ 183]
Two Dreadful Days on the Battlefield. Shiloh[ 28]
Very Timely Arrest[ 166]
Visiting Hospitals under the Guns[ 138]
We honor Our Grand Old Heroes[ 4]

A WOMAN’S REMINISCENCES

OF