CHAPTER VII

THE MINISTERING ANGEL

Dual position of Miss Nightingale: administrator and nurse. Prodigious power of work--Her attention to the sick and wounded --Her midnight vigils--The famous lamp--The soldiers kissing her shadow--Idolization by the men. II. Correspondence with relatives and friends of the wounded soldiers. III. Strain upon Miss Nightingale's powers--Burden of correspondence--Her helpers--Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge. IV. Schemes for helping the soldiers--Mr. Augustus Stafford--The Orderlies and Miss Nightingale 233