Daughter of Jane Eliza Newton and Charles William Woolsey. Wife of Joseph Howland. Served in the Civil war as a nurse along with her sisters Georgy, Jane, and Eliza and their mother Jane Newton Woolsey.
The three sisters served in numerous capacities, both in hospitals and on military hospital transport ships. Jane and Georgy were assistant superintendents of the U.S. Army hospital at Portsmouth Grove, R.I. The two also served at Hammond General Hospital. They were paid $12 a month and immediately returned the compensation to the surgeon-in-charge to purchase items for the patients. Eliza returned to private life when her husband, Colonel Joseph Howland, was wounded and mustered out of service.
-Excerpted from an article written by Alice P. Stein which originally appeared in the Sept. 1999 issue of America's Civil War.
The three sisters served in numerous capacities, both in hospitals and on military hospital transport ships. Jane and Georgy were assistant superintendents of the U.S. Army hospital at Portsmouth Grove, R.I. The two also served at Hammond General Hospital. They were paid $12 a month and immediately returned the compensation to the surgeon-in-charge to purchase items for the patients. Eliza returned to private life when her husband, Colonel Joseph Howland, was wounded and mustered out of service.
-Excerpted from an article written by Alice P. Stein which originally appeared in the Sept. 1999 issue of America's Civil War.
Daughter of Jane Eliza Newton and Charles William Woolsey. Wife of Joseph Howland. Served in the Civil war as a nurse along with her sisters Georgy, Jane, and Eliza and their mother Jane Newton Woolsey.
The three sisters served in numerous capacities, both in hospitals and on military hospital transport ships. Jane and Georgy were assistant superintendents of the U.S. Army hospital at Portsmouth Grove, R.I. The two also served at Hammond General Hospital. They were paid $12 a month and immediately returned the compensation to the surgeon-in-charge to purchase items for the patients. Eliza returned to private life when her husband, Colonel Joseph Howland, was wounded and mustered out of service.
-Excerpted from an article written by Alice P. Stein which originally appeared in the Sept. 1999 issue of America's Civil War.
The three sisters served in numerous capacities, both in hospitals and on military hospital transport ships. Jane and Georgy were assistant superintendents of the U.S. Army hospital at Portsmouth Grove, R.I. The two also served at Hammond General Hospital. They were paid $12 a month and immediately returned the compensation to the surgeon-in-charge to purchase items for the patients. Eliza returned to private life when her husband, Colonel Joseph Howland, was wounded and mustered out of service.
-Excerpted from an article written by Alice P. Stein which originally appeared in the Sept. 1999 issue of America's Civil War.
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