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Over time, I will be adding more names and biographies to the list of women below. If you would like to learn more about a nurse who has no biography listed at the present time, please contact me and I will be sure to add it soon!
Martha Jennison (North)
Caroline Johnson (North)
Former slave who volunteered in various Washington, DC hospitals
Was noted for her work and invited to the White House by President Lincoln
Estelle Johnson
Clarissa Jones (North)
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania
Volunteered her services between 1861 and 1863 during school breaks, as she was the principal of a girls' grammar school
Worked on the Steamer Maine in July 1862
Was matron at the Lyceum Military Hospital in Alexandria
Worked periodically at a hospital in Philadelphia
Was present at Gettysburg and Brandy Station
Lucy Kaiser (North)
Louisa Kamp (North)
Mary Knowles (North)
Alice Leedom (North)
All that is known of her exists in a letter in the collections of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
The letter was written to her by "Col. 104th PA Vols, W.W.H. Davis" on March 18, 1862 from Meridian Hill thanking her for caring for his men for the past five months
