Chapter 10

HOSPITAL WORK.

Cairo--Incidents Preparatory to Removing Freedmen's Camp to Island No. 10--Death of a Child--Disbursing Supplies and other Mission Work on the Island--Story of Uncle Stephen--Hospital Visiting in Memphis, Tennessee--Surgeon Powers Reported--Forty Slaves come into Camp Shiloh--Seven Slaves come from a Plantation seven miles below Memphis--First Enlistment of Colored Soldiers--Mission Work in Columbus, Kentucky--Young Colored Man Shot by his Young Master--Turning of Tables--Return Home--Our Principal, E. A. Haight, Enlisted