Born: 18 August 1823,
Died: 4 March 1913
Country most active: United States
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This biography is reprinted in full with permission from the National Women’s History Museum (United States of America). All rights reserved.
In the Confederacy, the most prominent nurses were Captain Sally Tompkins and Phoebe Pember. Phoebe Levy Pember has become somewhat better known since the Post Office recently included her on a series of Civil War stamps. A young widow from a wealthy, Jewish family based in Charleston and Atlanta, she went north to the Confederate capital of Richmond and eventually ran the world’s largest hospital. On an average day, Pember supervised the treatment of 15,000 patients, most of them cared for by nearly 300 slave women.
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