them much less embarrassment in her labors. With the latter class
among the Confederates, there was not on either side a consciousness
of social equality or an effort to maintain its amenities. The
relation was the simple one of kindness bestowed and received.

The girl made the acquaintance of the Union wounded with feelings in
which doubt, curiosity and sympathy were strangely blended. Her
regard for Scoville added to her peculiar interest in his
compatriots. They were the enemies of whom she had heard so much,
having been represented as more alien and foreign than if they had
come across the seas and spoke a different tongue. How they would
receive her had been an anxious query from the first, but she
quickly learned that her touch of kindness made them kin--that they
welcomed her in the same spirit as did her own people, while they
also were animated by like curiosity and wondering interest in
regard to herself. A woman's presence in a field hospital was in
itself strange and unexpected. That this woman should be a Southern
girl, whose lovely features were gentle in commiseration, instead of
rigid from an imperious sense of duty to foes, was a truth scarcely
accepted at first. Its fuller comprehension began to evoke a homage
which troubled the girl. She was too simple and honest to accept
such return for what seemed the natural offices of humanity; yet,
while her manner and words checked its expression, they only
deepened the feeling.

At first she could scarcely distinguish among the bronzed, begrimed
faces, but before the day passed there were those whose needs and
personal traits enlisted her special regard. This was true of one
middle-aged Union captain, to whom at first she had no call to
speak, for apparently he was not very seriously wounded. Even before