I am free to confess that I had a realizing sense of the fact that my hospital bed was not a bed of roses just then, or the prospect3 before me one of unmingled rapture6. My three days' experiences had begun with a death, and, owing to the defalcation7 of another nurse, a somewhat abrupt8 plunge9 into the superintendence of a ward10 containing forty beds, where I spent my shining hours washing faces, serving rations11, giving medicine, and sitting in a very hard chair, with pneumonia12 on one side, diptheria on the other, five typhoids on the opposite, and a dozen dilapidated patriots13, hopping15, lying, and lounging about, all staring more or less at the new "nuss," who suffered untold16 agonies, but concealed17 them under as matronly an aspect as a spinster could assume, and blundered through her trying labors18 with a Spartan20 firmness, which I hope they appreciated, but am afraid they didn't. Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism21 was n't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles22; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal; but when I peeped into the dusky street lined with what I at first had innocently called market carts, now unloading their sad freight at our door, I recalled sundry23 reminiscences I had heard from nurses of longer standing24, my ardor25 experienced a [Page 33] sudden chill, and I indulged in a most unpatriotic wish that I was safe at home again, with a quiet day before me, and no necessity for being hustled26 up, as if I were a hen and had only to hop14 off my roost, give my plumage a peck, and be ready for action. A second bang at the door sent this recreant27 desire to the right about, as a little woolly head popped in, and Joey, (a six years' old contraband,) announced-"Miss Blank is jes' wild fer ye, and says fly round right away. They's comin' in, I tell yer, heaps on 'em-one was took out dead, and I see him,-hi! warn't he a goner!"With which cheerful intelligence the imp1 scuttled28 away, singing like a blackbird, and I followed, feeling that Richard was not himself again, and wouldn't be for a long time to come.
The first thing I met was a regiment29 of the vilest30 odors that ever assaulted the human nose, and took it by storm. Cologne, with its seven and seventy evil savors31, was a posy-bed to it; and the worst of this affliction was, every one had assured me that it was a chronic32 weakness of all hospitals, and I must bear it. I did, armed with lavender water, with which I so besprinkled myself and premises33, that, like my friend Sairy, I was soon known among my patients as "the nurse with the bottle." Having been run over by three excited surgeons, bumped against by migratory34 coal-hods, water-pails, and small boys, nearly scalded by an avalanche35 of newly-filled tea-pots, and hopelessly entangled36 in a knot of colored sisters coming to wash, I progressed by slow stages up stairs and down, till the main hall was reached, and I paused to take breath and a survey. There they were! "our brave boys," as the papers justly call them, for cowards could hardly have been so riddled37 with shot and shell, so torn and shattered, nor have borne suffering for which we have no name, [Page 34] with an uncomplaining fortitude38, which made one glad to cherish each as a brother. In they came, some on stretchers, some in men's arms, some feebly staggering along propped39 on rude crutches40, and one lay stark41 and still with covered face, as a comrade gave his name to be recorded before they carried him away to the dead house. All was hurry and confusion; the hall was full of these wrecks42 of humanity, for the most exhausted43 could not reach a bed till duly ticketed and registered; the walls were lined with rows of such as could sit, the floor covered with the more disabled, the steps and doorways44 filled with helpers and lookers on; the sound of many feet and voices made that usually quiet hour as noisy as noon; and, in the midst of it all, the matron's motherly face brought more comfort to many a poor soul, than the cordial draughts46 she administered, or the cheery words that welcomed all, making of the hospital a home.
The sight of several stretchers, each with its legless, armless, or desperately47 wounded occupant, entering my ward, admonished48 me that I was there to work, not to wonder or weep; so I corked49 up my feelings, and returned to the path of duty, which was rather "a hard road to travel" just then. The house had been a hotel before hospitals were needed, and many of the doors still bore their old names; some not so inappropriate as might be imagined, for my ward was in truth a ball-room, if gun-shot wounds could christen it. Forty beds were prepared, many already tenanted by tired men who fell down anywhere, and drowsed till the smell of food roused them. Round the great stove was gathered the dreariest50 group I ever saw-ragged, gaunt and pale, mud to the knees, with bloody51 bandages untouched since put on days before; many bundled up in blankets, coats being lost or useless; and all wearing that disheartened look which proclaimed defeat, [Page 35] more plainly than any telegram of the Burnside blunder. I pitied them so much, I dared not speak to them, though, remembering all they had been through since the route at Fredericksburg, I yearned52 to serve the dreariest of them all. Presently, Miss Blank tore me from my refuge behind piles of one-sleeved shirts, odd socks, bandages and lint53; put basin, sponge, towels, and a block of brown soap into my hands, with these appalling54 directions:
"Come, my dear, begin to wash as fast as you can. Tell them to take off socks, coats and shirts, scrub them well, put on clean shirts, and the attendants will finish them off, and lay them in bed."If she had requested me to shave them all, or dance a hornpipe on the stove funnel55, I should have been less staggered; but to scrub some dozen lords of creation at a moment's notice, was really-really-. However, there was no time for nonsense, and, having resolved when I came to do everything I was bid, I drowned my scruples56 in my wash-bowl, clutched my soap manfully, and, assuming a business-like air, made a dab57 at the first dirty specimen58 I saw, bent59 on performing my task vi et armis if necessary. I chanced to light on a withered60 old Irishman, wounded in the head, which caused that portion of his frame to be tastefully laid out like a garden, the bandages being the walks, his hair the shrubbery. He was so overpowered by the honor of having a lady wash him, as he expressed it, that he did nothing but roll up his eyes, and bless me, in an irresistible61 style which was too much for my sense of the ludicrous; so we laughed together, and when I knelt down to take off his shoes, he "flopped62" also, and wouldn't hear of my touching63 "them dirty craters64. May your bed above be aisy darlin', for the day's work ye ar doon! -Whoosh! there ye are, and bedad, it's hard tellin' which is [Page 36] the dirtiest, the fut or the shoe." It was; and if he hadn't been to the fore4, I should have gone on pulling, under the impression that the "fut" was a boot, for trousers, socks, shoes and legs were a mass of mud. This comical tableau65 produced a general grin, at which propitious66 beginning I took heart and scrubbed away like any tidy parent on a Saturday night. Some of them took the performance like sleepy children, leaning their tired heads against me as I worked, others looked grimly scandalized, and several of the roughest colored like bashful girls. One wore a soiled little bag about his neck, and, as I moved it, to bathe his wounded breast, I said,"Your talisman67 didn't save you, did it?""Well, I reckon it did, marm, for that shot would a gone a couple a inches deeper but for my old mammy's camphor bag," answered the cheerful philosopher.
Another, with a gun-shot wound through the cheek, asked for a looking-glass, and when I brought one, regarded his swollen68 face with a dolorous69 expression, as he muttered-"I vow70 to gosh, that's too bad! I warn't a bad looking chap before, and now I'm done for; won't there be a thunderin' scar? and what on earth will Josephine Skinner say?"He looked up at me with his one eye so appealingly, that I controlled my risibles, and assured him that if Josephine was a girl of sense, she would admire the honorable scar, as a lasting71 proof that he had faced the enemy, for all women thought a wound the best decoration a brave soldier could wear. I hope Miss Skinner verified the good opinion I so rashly expressed of her, but I shall never know.
The next scrubbee was a nice looking lad, with a curly brown mane, and a budding trace of gingerbread over the lip, which he called his beard, and defended stoutly72, when the barber jocosely73 suggested its immolation74. He lay on a bed, [Page 37] with one leg gone, and the right arm so shattered that it must evidently follow: yet the little Sergeant75 was as merry as if his afflictions were not worth lamenting76 over; and when a drop or two of salt water mingled5 with my suds at the sight of this strong young body, so marred77 and maimed, the boy looked up, with a brave smile, though there was a little quiver of the lips, as he said,"Now don't you fret78 yourself about me, miss; I'm first rate here, for it's nuts to lie still on this bed, after knocking about in those confounded ambulances, that shake what there is left of a fellow to jelly. I never was in one of these places before, and think this cleaning up a jolly thing for us, though I'm afraid it isn't for you ladies.""Is this your first battle, Sergeant?""No, miss; I've been in six scrimmages, and never got a scratch till this last one; but it's done the business pretty thoroughly79 for me, I should say. Lord! what a scramble80 there'll be for arms and legs, when we old boys come out of our graves, on the Judgment81 Day: wonder if we shall get our own again? If we do, my leg will have to tramp from Fredericksburg, my arm from here, I suppose, and meet my body, wherever it may be."The fancy seemed to tickle82 him mightily83, for he laughed blithely84, and so did I; which, no doubt, caused the new nurse to be regarded as a light-minded sinner by the Chaplain, who roamed vaguely85 about, informing the men that they were all worms, corrupt86 of heart, with perishable87 bodies, and souls only to be saved by a diligent88 perusal89 of certain tracts90, and other equally cheering bits of spiritual consolation91, when spirituous ditto would have been preferred.
"I say, Mrs.!" called a voice behind me; and, turning, I saw a rough Michigander, with an arm blown off at the shoul- [Page 38] der, and two or three bullets still in him-as he afterwards mentioned, as carelessly as if gentlemen were in the habit of carrying such trifles about with them. I went to him, and, while administering a dose of soap and water, he whispered, irefully:
"That red-headed devil, over yonder, is a reb, damn him! You'll agree to that, I'll bet? He's got shet of a foot, or he'd a cut like the rest of the lot. Don't you wash him, nor feed him, but jest let him holler till he's tired. It's a blasted shame to fetch them fellers in here, along side of us; and so I'll tell the chap that bosses this concern; cuss me if I don't."I regret to say that I did not deliver a moral sermon upon the duty of forgiving our enemies, and the sin of profanity, then and there; but, being a red-hot Abolitionist, stared fixedly92 at the tall rebel, who was a copperhead, in every sense of the word, and privately93 resolved to put soap in his eyes, rub his nose the wrong way, and excoriate94 his cuticle95 generally, if I had the washing of him.
My amiable96 intentions, however, were frustrated97; for, when I approached, with as Christian98 an expression as my principles would allow, and asked the question-"Shall I try to make you more comfortable, sir?" all I got for my pains was a gruff-"No; I'll do it myself.""Here's your Southern chivalry99, with a witness," thought I, dumping the basin down before him, thereby100 quenching101 a strong desire to give him a summary baptism, in return for his ungraciousness; for my angry passions rose, at this rebuff, in a way that would have scandalized good Dr. Watts102. He was a disappointment in all respects, (the rebel, not the blessed Doctor,) for he was neither fiendish, romantic, pathetic, or anything interesting; but a long, fat man, with a head like a [Page 39] burning bush, and a perfectly103 expressionless face: so I could dislike him without the slightest drawback, and ignored his existence from that day forth104. One redeeming105 trait he certainly did possess, as the floor speedily testified; for his ablutions were so vigorously performed, that his bed soon stood like an isolated107 island, in a sea of soap-suds, and he resembled a dripping merman, suffering from the loss of a fin2. If cleanliness is a near neighbor to godliness, then was the big rebel the godliest man in my ward that day.
Having done up our human wash, and laid it out to dry, the second syllable108 of our version of the word war-fare was enacted109 with much success. Great trays of bread, meat, soup and coffee appeared; and both nurses and attendants turned waiters, serving bountiful rations to all who could eat. I can call my pinafore to testify to my good will in the work, for in ten minutes it was reduced to a perambulating bill of fare, presenting samples of all the refreshments110 going or gone. It was a lively scene; the long room lined with rows of beds, each filled by an occupant, whom water, shears111, and clean raiment, had transformed from a dismal112 ragamuffin into a recumbent hero, with a cropped head. To and fro rushed matrons, maids, and convalescent "boys," skirmishing with knives and forks; retreating with empty plates; marching and counter-marching, with unvaried success, while the clash of busy spoons made most inspiring music for the charge of our Light Brigade:
"Beds to the front of them,Beds to the right of them,Beds to the left of them,Nobody blundered.
Beamed at by hungry souls,Screamed at with brimming bowls,Steamed at by army rolls,Buttered and sundered113.
With coffee not cannon114 plied,Each must be satisfied,Whether they lived or died;All the men wondered."[Page 40]
Very welcome seemed the generous meal, after a week of suffering, exposure, and short commons; soon the brown faces began to smile, as food, warmth, and rest, did their pleasant work; and the grateful "Thankee's" were followed by more graphic115 accounts of the battle and retreat, than any paid reporter could have given us. Curious contrasts of the tragic116 and comic met one everywhere; and some touching as well as ludicrous episodes, might have been recorded that day. A six foot New Hampshire man, with a leg broken and perforated by a piece of shell, so large that, had I not seen the wound, I should have regarded the story as a Munchausenism, beckoned117 me to come and help him, as he could not sit up, and both his bed and beard were getting plentifully118 anointed with soup. As I fed my big nestling with corresponding mouthfuls, I asked him how he felt during the battle.
"Well, 'twas my fust, you see, so I aint ashamed to say I was a trifle flustered119 in the beginnin', there was such an allfired racket; for ef there's anything I do spleen agin, it's noise. But when my mate, Eph Sylvester, caved, with a bullet through his head, I got mad, and pitched in, licketty cut. Our part of the fight didn't last long; so a lot of us larked120 round Fredericksburg, and give some of them houses a pretty consid'able of a rummage121, till we was ordered out of the mess. Some of our fellows cut like time; but I warn't a-goin' to run for nobody; and, fust thing I knew, a shell bust122, right in front of us, and I keeled over, feelin' as if I was blowed higher'n a kite. I sung out, and the boys come back for me, double quick; but the way they chucked me over them fences was a caution, I tell you. Next day I was most as black as that darkey yonder, lickin' plates on the sly. This is bully123 coffee, ain't it? Give us another pull at it, and I'll be obleeged to you." [Page 41]
I did; and, as the last gulp124 subsided125, he said, with a rub of his old handkerchief over eyes as well as mouth:
"Look a here; I've got a pair a earbobs and a handkercher pin I'm a goin' to give you, if you'll have them; for you're the very moral o' Lizy Sylvester, poor Eph's wife: that's why I signalled you to come over here. They aint much, I guess, but they'll do to memorize the rebs by."Burrowing126 under his pillow, he produced a little bundle of what he called "truck," and gallantly127 presented me with a pair of earrings128, each representing a cluster of corpulent grapes, and the pin a basket of astonishing fruit, the whole large and coppery enough for a small warming-pan. Feeling delicate about depriving him of such valuable relics129, I accepted the earrings alone, and was obliged to depart, somewhat abruptly130, when my friend stuck the warming-pan in the bosom131 of his night-gown, viewing it with much complacency, and, perhaps, some tender memory, in that rough heart of his, for the comrade he had lost.
Observing that the man next him had left his meal untouched, I offered the same service I had performed for his neighbor, but he shook his head.
"Thank you, ma'am; I don't think I'll ever eat again, for I'm shot in the stomach. But I'd like a drink of water, if you aint too busy."I rushed away, but the water-pails were gone to be refilled, and it was some time before they reappeared. I did not forget my patient patient, meanwhile, and, with the first mugful, hurried back to him. He seemed asleep; but something in the tired white face caused me to listen at his lips for a breath. None came. I touched his forehead; it was cold: and then I knew that, while he waited, a better nurse than I had given him a cooler draught45, and healed him with a touch. I laid [Page 42] the sheet over the quiet sleeper132, whom no noise could now disturb; and, half an hour later, the bed was empty. It seemed a poor requital133 for all he had sacrificed and suffered,-that hospital bed, lonely even in a crowd; for there was no familiar face for him to look his last upon; no friendly voice to say, Good bye; no hand to lead him gently down into the Valley of the Shadow; and he vanished, like a drop in that red sea upon whose shores so many women stand lamenting. For a moment I felt bitterly indignant at this seeming carelessness of the value of life, the sanctity of death; then consoled myself with the thought that, when the great muster134 roll was called, these nameless men might be promoted above many whose tall monuments record the barren honors they have won.
All having eaten, drank, and rested, the surgeons began their rounds; and I took my first lesson in the art of dressing135 wounds. It wasn't a festive136 scene, by any means; for Dr P., whose Aid I constituted myself, fell to work with a vigor106 which soon convinced me that I was a weaker vessel137, though nothing would have induced me to confess it then. He had served in the Crimea, and seemed to regard a dilapidated body very much as I should have regarded a damaged garment; and, turning up his cuffs138, whipped out a very unpleasant looking housewife, cutting, sawing, patching and piecing, with the enthusiasm of an accomplished139 surgical140 seamstress; explaining the process, in scientific terms, to the patient, meantime; which, of course, was immensely cheering and comfortable. There was an uncanny sort of fascination141 in watching him, as he peered and probed into the mechanism142 of those wonderful bodies, whose mysteries he understood so well. The more intricate the wound, the better he liked it. A poor private, with both legs off, and shot through the lungs, possessed143 more [Page 43] attractions for him than a dozen generals, slightly scratched in some "masterly retreat;" and had any one appeared in small pieces, requesting to be put together again, he would have considered it a special dispensation.
The amputations were reserved till the morrow, and the merciful magic of ether was not thought necessary that day, so the poor souls had to bear their pains as best they might. It is all very well to talk of the patience of woman; and far be it from me to pluck that feather from her cap, for, heaven knows, she isn't allowed to wear many; but the patient endurance of these men, under trials of the flesh, was truly wonderful. Their fortitude seemed contagious144, and scarcely a cry escaped them, though I often longed to groan145 for them, when pride kept their white lips shut, while great drops stood upon their foreheads, and the bed shook with the irrepressible tremor146 of their tortured bodies. One or two Irishmen anathematized the doctors with the frankness of their nation, and ordered the Virgin147 to stand by them, as if she had been the wedded148 Biddy to whom they could administer the poker149, if she didn't; but, as a general thing, the work went on in silence, broken only by some quiet request for roller, instruments, or plaster, a sigh from the patient, or a sympathizing murmur150 from the nurse.
It was long past noon before these repairs were even partially151 made; and, having got the bodies of my boys into something like order, the next task was to minister to their minds, by writing letters to the anxious souls at home; answering questions, reading papers, taking possession of money and valuables; for the eighth commandment was reduced to a very fragmentary condition, both by the blacks and whites, who ornamented152 our hospital with their presence. Pocket books, purses, miniatures, and watches, were sealed up, [Page 44] labelled, and handed over to the matron, till such times as the owners thereof were ready to depart homeward or campward again. The letters dictated153 to me, and revised by me, that afternoon, would have made an excellent chapter for some future history of the war; for, like that which Thackeray's "Ensign Spooney" wrote his mother just before Waterloo, they were "full of affection, pluck, and bad spelling;" nearly all giving lively accounts of the battle, and ending with a somewhat sudden plunge from patriotism154 to provender155, desiring "Marm," "Mary Ann," or "Aunt Peters," to send along some pies, pickles156, sweet stuff, and apples, "to yourn in haste," Joe, Sam, or Ned, as the case might be.
My little Sergeant insisted on trying to scribble157 something with his left hand, and patiently accomplished some half dozen lines of hieroglyphics158, which he gave me to fold and direct, with a boyish blush, that rendered a glimpse of "My Dearest Jane," unnecessary, to assure me that the heroic lad had been more successful in the service of Commander-in-Chief Cupid than that of Gen. Mars; and a charming little romance blossomed instanter in Nurse Periwinkle's romantic fancy, though no further confidences were made that day, for Sergeant fell asleep, and, judging from his tranquil159 face, visited his absent sweetheart in the pleasant land of dreams.
At five o'clock a great bell rang, and the attendants flew, not to arms, but to their trays, to bring up supper, when a second uproar160 announced that it was ready. The new comers woke at the sound; and I presently discovered that it took a very bad wound to incapacitate the defenders161 of the faith for the consumption of their rations; the amount that some of them sequestered162 was amazing; but when I suggested the probability of a famine hereafter, to the matron, that motherly lady cried out: "Bless their hearts, why shouldn't they eat? [Page 45] It's their only amusement; so fill every one, and, if there's not enough ready to-night, I'll lend my share to the Lord by giving it to the boys." And, whipping up her coffee-pot and plate of toast, she gladdened the eyes and stomachs of two or three dissatisfied heroes, by serving them with a liberal hand; and I haven't the slightest doubt that, having cast her bread upon the waters, it came back buttered, as another large-hearted old lady was wont163 to say.
Then came the doctor's evening visit; the administration of medicines; washing feverish164 faces; smoothing tumbled beds; wetting wounds; singing lullabies; and preparations for the night. By twelve, the last labor19 of love was done; the last "good night" spoken; and, if any needed a reward for that day's work, they surely received it, in the silent eloquence165 of those long lines of faces, showing pale and peaceful in the shaded rooms, as we quitted them, followed by grateful glances that lighted us to bed, where rest, the sweetest, made our pillows soft, while Night and Nature took our places, filling that great house of pain with the healing miracles of Sleep, and his diviner brother, Death.
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pickles
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defenders
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