Civil War Nurse - Seminary Hospital, VA

Item MED-9941

Description

Civil War Nurse Rebecca Wiswell. Her Civil War pension has the following: "Rebecca Wiswell was one of the efficient corps of Army nurses whose devoted and untiring labors, under the superintendency of Dorothy Dix, form one of the brightest pages in the history of the conflict of nearly quarter a century ago. She entered service in March 1862, her labors ceasing at her discharge in July 1865. Her services were rendered at the Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, DC and hospitals at Winchester and Fortress Monroe, her whole term covering the period of three years and four months."