- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
- Location
- Long Island, NY
Nurse Charlotte McKay gives an interesting account of her meeting with an Irish woman who accompanied the 1st Michigan Cavalry:
"Visited, in company with Miss Bridget Deavers, two large camps of dismounted cavalry-men lying along the James River a few miles from City Point. Bridget, or as the men call her, Biddy-has probably seen more of hardship and danger than any other woman during the war. She has been with the cavalry all the time, going out with them on their cavalry raids-always ready to succor the wounded on the field-often getting men off who, but for her, would be left to die, and. fearless of shell or bullet, among the last to leave."
Stories of Hospital and Camp
By Charlotte Elizabeth McKay p. 125
"Visited, in company with Miss Bridget Deavers, two large camps of dismounted cavalry-men lying along the James River a few miles from City Point. Bridget, or as the men call her, Biddy-has probably seen more of hardship and danger than any other woman during the war. She has been with the cavalry all the time, going out with them on their cavalry raids-always ready to succor the wounded on the field-often getting men off who, but for her, would be left to die, and. fearless of shell or bullet, among the last to leave."
Stories of Hospital and Camp
By Charlotte Elizabeth McKay p. 125
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