US Civil War nurse, Helen L. Gilson, and head
US Civil War nurse, Helen L. Gilson, and head of the Union Colored Hospital Service, c. 1861-65. She served wounded soldiers of the battles of Yorktown, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg. She improved bad conditions at the African American soldiers hospital at Petersburg
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
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