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OUR AMERICAN SISTERS. 209
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? We Have Lately Received Froin America ...
employ a number of women and pay by the piece , the workers earning from three dollars and a half to six dollars a week .
Different kinds of work have different prices . Those who put up perfumery earn most . The greater part of the duties in a drug store can
be performed by well qualified ladies as efficiently as by men . So few ladies are employed in that way that they feel timid about assuming "
the responsibilities of a drug store in a city . Yet after they had . spent two or three years in a store belonging to others , where they
were properly instructed , why need they feel too deep a responsibilit We y in will one conclude of their the own dry ? record for this month with a curious
little anecdote of a much more exciting description , extracted from an American paper of last month , sent us by a lady friend . We
cannot further vouch for the truth of the story , but it reads as if it were true : —Anna Etheridge is a native of Detroit , Michigan .
She is twenty-three years of age , and her childhood was passed in a wealthhome but pecuniary misfortune fell upon her father , and ,
broken y btrouble ; he removed to Minnesotawhere he diedleavy , , , ing his daughterat the age of twelve , in com / parative _povertj r .
On the breaking out , of the rebellion , she was visiting her friends in Detroit . Colonel Richardson was then engaged in raising the
2 nd Michigan Volunteers , and Miss Etheridge , with nineteen other ladiesvolunteered to accompany the regiment as nurses . All
these , havenow either returned home or been discharged ; but Anna Etherid , ge remains at her post , and will not leave , if her
life be spared , until the conclusion of the war . She tends the soldiers on the _fields having for her use a horse furnished with a
side-saddle , saddle-bags , & c . When a battle commences , she is readwith lint and bandagesand attends to the wounded as they
are y struck down , staunching , and binding up their wounds , and constantlherself within range of the enemy ' s fire . In this
manner she y has passed through every battle in which the regiment has been engaged . General Berry , the present commander of the
brigade , declares that she has been under as hot a fire of the enemy as he himself . On one occasion , a soldier was struck while
she was in the act of binding up his wounds previously received , and on occasions her dress has been pierced by bullets and
_fragments many of shell , but she has been spared by a merciful Providence in the performance of her work of mercy . Her regiment
belongs to the brigade commanded by the lamented General Kearney till his death , and , in consideration of her dauntless
courage and invaluable services in saving the lives of his men , General Kearney her honorary rank as a regimental sergeant !
When not actively gave engaged on the battle-field , or in the hospital , she superintends the cooking at the head-quarters of the brigade .
When the brigade moves she accompanies the surgeons on horseback , and attends the ambulances , watching the sick and wounded .
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Our American Sisters. 209
OUR AMERICAN SISTERS . 209
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/65/
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