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Annie Bell with patients after the Battle of Nashville, circa 1864" (U.S. Sanitary Commission photograph), in "Civil War Nurses," in "Civil War Women," in "Understanding War Through Imagery: The Civil War in American Memory." Carlisle, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, retrieved online May 16, 2018.
Mary Ann Brown Newcomb, also known as Mary A. Newcomb (January 5, 1817 – December 23, 1892), [a] was a camp and hospital nurse who served the Union Army during the American Civil War. She wrote the book Four Years of Work and Personal Experience in the War. [1] When the war broke out her husband and son enlisted in the Union Army.
The United States Sanitary Commission ( USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. [a] It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue ...
The state of medical knowledge at the time of the Civil War was extremely primitive. Doctors did not understand infection, and did little to prevent it. It was a time before antiseptics, and a time when there was no attempt to maintain sterility during surgery. No antibiotics were available, and minor wounds could easily become infected, and ...
Occupation (s) Nurse, humanitarian, founder and first president of the American Red Cross. Relatives. Elvira Stone (cousin) Signature. Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk.
1830. Edinburgh, Scotland. Died. June 5, 1909. Birmingham, Alabama. Occupation. Nurse. Kate Cumming (1830 – June 5, 1909) was a Confederate Civil War nurse. [1] [2] Cumming remained a nurse throughout the duration of the war, rare for most servicewomen, urged on by her strong sense of patriotism .
Mary Martha Reid. Mary Martha Reid (September 19, 1812 – June 24, 1894) is Florida's "most famous nurse and Confederate heroine." [1] She is best known for serving as the matron of the Florida Hospital, founded in Richmond, Virginia in 1862 to treat convalescing Confederate soldiers from Florida. Her husband, Robert Raymond Reid, served as ...
e. Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America. It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.