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Harriet Douglas Whetten

Date: 1860
Description: Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18...
Photograph

Jane Jennings

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen...
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Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds

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Description: A sketch drawn from a formal photographic portrait of Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds. During the Civil War many women enlisted in armies or traveled with their ...
Photograph

Monument to Mother Bickerdyke

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Description: View of a monument to Mother Bickerdyke (1817-1901), an army nurse. The memorial, erected in 1904, features Mary Ann Bickerdyke kneeling beside a soldier, ...

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