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Lucy Higgs Nichols (April 10, 1838 – January 25, 1915) was an African American woman who escaped slavery.She served as a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Memorial to U.S. Civil War nurses in the Massachusetts State House: "Angels of mercy and life amid scenes of conflict and death" At the Encampment of 1892, the group attracted 35 members from all across the United States. Therefore, the group's name was changed to the National Association of Army Nurses of the Late War. [3]
Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War. Roseville, Minnesota: Edinborough Press. ISBN 1-889020-04-4. Massey, Mary Elizabeth (1994). Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-8213-3. Schultz, Jane (2004). Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: The University of North ...
National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War (16 P) Pages in category "American Civil War nurses" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total.
Bell was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. She left Ohio in September 1863 to join the Civil War effort. [1] Her work began with her husband A.O. Hartley, who was a hospital steward, at Covington Barracks in Kentucky. While the two were in camp, there were outbreaks of diseases such as smallpox and spotted fever. [2]
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She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then very formalized and she did not attend nursing school, she provided self-taught nursing care. [1] Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote. [2]
Salaria Kea O'Reilly (born 13 July 1913 in Milledgeville, Georgia – died 18 May 1990 in Akron, Ohio) was an American nurse and desegregation activist who volunteered in both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. [1] During the Spanish Civil War she was the only African American nurse working in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. [2] [3]