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Photographer: S.M. Fassett
Taken: September 1863
Caption: Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Civil War nurse
Additional Description: Portrait of Mary Ann Bickerdyke, also known as "Mother to the Boys in Blue," who cared for wounded soldiers on nineteen battlefields, including Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Atlanta and improved or established approximately 300 hospitals as an agent of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-57151
Submitted: July 24, 2023.
Database Locator Identification Number: p739214
File Size: 0.284 Megabytes

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