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Photographer: Courtesy Lynchburg Museum System
Caption: Marker detail: Martha Spence Edley (1826-1920)
Additional Description: Slave Martha Spence Edley accompanied her mistress to the Ladies' Relief Hospital to nurse sick and wounded soldiers. She was remembered for washing and dressing wounds in often "ghastly" conditions.
Submitted: September 21, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p539826
File Size: 0.156 Megabytes

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