Female Civil War Nurses: Q - S

Female Civil War Nurses: Q - S

This page is under construction! Please check back frequently!

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!

Mother Ransom

Pamela Reid (North)

Rachel Harris Reid (North)

Born in Chautauqua County, New York
Received appointment by Dorothea Dix and formed "a Wisconsin band of Army Nurses"
Earned her medical degree after the War, in 1874

Arabella L.M. Reynolds (North)

Selener Richards (North)

Fanny Ricketts (North)

Alice Cary Risley

Born in Ohio; November 1, 1847
Volunteered at hospitals near New Orleans between 1862 and September 1865
Check out The Alice Risley Papers

Hannah Chandler Ropes (North)

Lennie Rusell (North)

Mary Jane Safford (North)

Princess Agnes Elizabeth Winona Leclerg Jay Salm-Salm

Ann Maria Schram (North)

Harriet Scott (North)

Letitia Tyler Semple (South)

Volunteered at a hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia

Hannah Sheppard (North)

Emma Simonds (North)

Ruth Sinnotte (North)

Adelaide W. Smith (North)

Helen Smith (North)

Emily Bliss Souder (North)

Born in 1814
Volunteered as a nurse during the aftermath of Gettysburg
Buried at Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sarah Sprague (North)

Adelaide Spurgeon (North)

Hannah Judkins Starbird (North)

Born in Skowhegan, Maine
Received appointment from Miss Dix in August of 1864
Worked at Carver Hospital in Washington, DC for three weeks
Was sent to St. John's College Hospital in Washington, DC and remained there until it closed on July 15, 1865

Mary Stinebaugh (North)

Fanny Stockbridge (North)

Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Worked in a hospital in Baltimore

Vesta Swarts (North)

Jane Grey Swisshelm (North)

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