By the time she turned twenty she had already learned everything her aunt had taught her and much more. She understood that there was a war fixing to happen because of all of the people that came into the clinic. They were always talking about the war. How it was fixing to happen and how well they "thought" the Union were prepared. But then again, how well could anyone be prepared for war?

When the war came, it came a lot sooner than everyone was expecting. The Union was no more prepared actually, than the Confederacy. Kay and her Aunt had a lot more patients than usual, but what else is the outcome of war? At one point they had to set up several tents outside of the house for patients because in the house there was no more room. If there were people that had bullet wounds they would just move them off to the

Kay went and when she got there something hit her in the heart! It was not a bullet though, it was the sight of all the dead people just left there unattended. She could not believe her eyes! She was basically standing in a river of bodies. Quickly the soldiers took her to where some desperete medical attention was needed. It turned out to be someone she thought was awfully familier. He was, really familier but she couldn't quite tell who it was through all of the blood so she ordered the soldiers to get her some water and some rags. Well they had no water source and they couldn't give her any water. So they ended up just giving her rags. But since the blood was still wet she wiped it off easily. Suddenly she gasped! It was one of the young boys from her neighborhood back home. His name was Thomas Parkins. The question was, what was he doing fighting for the Union when he was a Confederate?

Everything was going rather well more people were getting helped faster and everything was going according to plan. Then all of the sudden soldiers bursted in and said that they needed some serious medical help. They talked about what all they needed and Kay agreed to go with them to help some Union soldiers out. Her Aunt was really worried about Kay and hoped to the good Lord that she came back alive.

Soon it just got out of hand. There just were too many wounded for the two women to handle. So they went to the neighbors and went into town and asked anyone who could help to he

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