[3] She worked with numerous hospitals and was present at many notable battles throughout the latter half of the war, until General Lee's surrender.

[4] Bucklin was devoted to the war effort, and though dependent on wages for her own living, felt the "same patriotism" as male volunteers.

A mere three months later, she was transferred to a Baptist church to take care of a nurse who had become ill.[7] Bucklin's most notable service, however, took place when she was moved to a point lookout at Chesapeake Bay for the winter.

Her illness proved to be quite extensive, and in her aforementioned letter to Holland she writes that the other hospital staff left her for dead.

[4] She recounted her wartime experiences in her 1869 book, In Hospital and Camp: A Woman's Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War.