Ever wanted to see if you can identify women who worked as nurses, cooks, and laundresses during the Civil War? Check out this ledger that I just found in the National Archives Catalog.
“This item consists of a single volume whose cover title reads “Names of Female Nurses Cooks and Laundresses Appearing on Rolls as Employed in Army Hospitals During the Civil War.” This volume certainly does not include all hospitals or hospital transport vessels, nor all nurses, cooks, or laundresses. For each person listed, no information is given about the specific position held or dates of employment. There references to specific volumes and page numbers of “old books” that have not been identified.
In addition to hospitals on land, the information concerning the following hospital transport vessels are also included: Atlantic, Baltic, Ben DeFord, Charles McDougall, D. A. January, Daniel Webster, J. S. Pringle, John Warner, Knickerbocker, and State of Maine.
This item was likely compiled some years after the Civil War.”
National Archives Identifier: 28277783
Creator(s): War Department. Office of the Surgeon General. 1818-9/18/1947 (Most Recent)
Record Group 112: Records of the Office of the Surgeon General (Army), 1775 – 1994