Nancy Harts Militia
The Nancy Harts militia, formed in LaGrange during the first weeks of the US Civil War (1861-65), was a female military unit organized by the wives of Confederate soldiers to protect the home front.
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Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Catherine Doyle
1800s Irish nun and military nurse
Shirley Bechervaise
Shirley Bechervaise was an Australian Army Nursing Sister during the second World War and was serving with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in France at the time of the Evacuation from Dunkirk.
Rae Landy
Military nurse who served around the globe in service to the U.S. Army and the medical profession.
Amerophan Callahan
Thai-American U.S. Air Force veteran
Almira L Fales
Philanthropist who tended the sick and wounded during the US Civil War
Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada
Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada served in the US Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service during WWII.
Delia Murphy
20th century Irish ballad singer
Colonel Kathy Ann C Baptiste-Jones
Col. Kathy Ann C. Baptiste-Jones helped start the 440th Civil Affairs Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado.