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Title: Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Holland, Mary Gardner
Subjects: Nurses
Publisher: Boston : Lounsbery, Nichols & Worth
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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INTRODUCTION. To no class of people are the soldiers of the late war moreindebted than to the Army Nurses. How the eyes of the oldveteran fill with tears when, at our camp fires, some old ladyis introduced, and the presiding officer says, Boys, shewas an army nurse. For a moment the distinguished officerspresent are forgotten, and they gather around the dear oldlady, eager to grasp her hand and say some kind and lovingword in appreciation of her services. I have often witnessedsuch a greeting at the annual reunion of New Hampshireveterans at the Weirs, when Aunt Harriet Dame has beenpresented. The work of the army nurse began as soon as Sumter wasfired upon. Within thirty days after the call for 75,000men, made by President Lincoln, April 14,1861, the WomansCentral Association, of New York, had chosen, from hundredsof candidates, one hundred competent women to be trainedby the physicians and surgeons of New York as nurses in thearmy hospitals. June 10, 1861, Miss Dorothea Dix was appo

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