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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.

Anna Morandi Manzolini

1700s Italian painter, sculptor, and anatomist, and for many years held the chair of Anatomy at the University of Bologna

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 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.

Myra King Merrick

1800s American physician

Rae Landy

Military nurse who served around the globe in service to the U.S. Army and the medical profession.

Selene Corlett

Milliner and dressmaker who organized a training school which prepared 260 women to work in hospitals, factories, at the American Red Cross, and on streetcars during WWI.