Almira Fifield, MD was among the first female physicians in the United States. In 1859 she graduated from New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts.
"Women such as Almira Fifield of Valparaiso played important roles as hospital nurses. At Hospital No. 1 in Poducah, Ky., according to an article in Harper's Weekly, she "sank under labor for the sick and wounded soldiers. Her death was the result of congestive chills... Having had a thorough medical education, she devoted her talents and acquirements so faithfully and modestly to the soldiers' benefit, that only her skill discovered her profession, as she held the position alone, of female nurse, under the Chicago Sanitary Commission."
"Nurses encountered difficulties of another kind after the war. "Since nurses were not usually sworn into service," Eckerman writes, "many women who gave their lives and health in service to their country were denied pensions that many undeserving men received."
Almira Fifield died on March 8, 1863, at Hospital No. 1 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Her remains were returned to Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, and a funeral service took place there in the Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev. Smith of the Valparaiso Male and Female College (now Valparaiso University) officiating. Her remains are buried in the Union Street Cemetery in Valparaiso in an unmarked grave (probably in the Fifield family plot).
Book info: "Indiana in the Civil War: Doctors, Hospitals, and Medical Care," by Nancy Pippen Eckerman. Published November 2001 by Arcadia Publishing. ISBN: 0-7385-1919-7.
"Women such as Almira Fifield of Valparaiso played important roles as hospital nurses. At Hospital No. 1 in Poducah, Ky., according to an article in Harper's Weekly, she "sank under labor for the sick and wounded soldiers. Her death was the result of congestive chills... Having had a thorough medical education, she devoted her talents and acquirements so faithfully and modestly to the soldiers' benefit, that only her skill discovered her profession, as she held the position alone, of female nurse, under the Chicago Sanitary Commission."
"Nurses encountered difficulties of another kind after the war. "Since nurses were not usually sworn into service," Eckerman writes, "many women who gave their lives and health in service to their country were denied pensions that many undeserving men received."
Almira Fifield died on March 8, 1863, at Hospital No. 1 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Her remains were returned to Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, and a funeral service took place there in the Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev. Smith of the Valparaiso Male and Female College (now Valparaiso University) officiating. Her remains are buried in the Union Street Cemetery in Valparaiso in an unmarked grave (probably in the Fifield family plot).
Book info: "Indiana in the Civil War: Doctors, Hospitals, and Medical Care," by Nancy Pippen Eckerman. Published November 2001 by Arcadia Publishing. ISBN: 0-7385-1919-7.
Almira Fifield, MD was among the first female physicians in the United States. In 1859 she graduated from New England Female Medical College in Boston, Massachusetts.
"Women such as Almira Fifield of Valparaiso played important roles as hospital nurses. At Hospital No. 1 in Poducah, Ky., according to an article in Harper's Weekly, she "sank under labor for the sick and wounded soldiers. Her death was the result of congestive chills... Having had a thorough medical education, she devoted her talents and acquirements so faithfully and modestly to the soldiers' benefit, that only her skill discovered her profession, as she held the position alone, of female nurse, under the Chicago Sanitary Commission."
"Nurses encountered difficulties of another kind after the war. "Since nurses were not usually sworn into service," Eckerman writes, "many women who gave their lives and health in service to their country were denied pensions that many undeserving men received."
Almira Fifield died on March 8, 1863, at Hospital No. 1 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Her remains were returned to Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, and a funeral service took place there in the Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev. Smith of the Valparaiso Male and Female College (now Valparaiso University) officiating. Her remains are buried in the Union Street Cemetery in Valparaiso in an unmarked grave (probably in the Fifield family plot).
Book info: "Indiana in the Civil War: Doctors, Hospitals, and Medical Care," by Nancy Pippen Eckerman. Published November 2001 by Arcadia Publishing. ISBN: 0-7385-1919-7.
"Women such as Almira Fifield of Valparaiso played important roles as hospital nurses. At Hospital No. 1 in Poducah, Ky., according to an article in Harper's Weekly, she "sank under labor for the sick and wounded soldiers. Her death was the result of congestive chills... Having had a thorough medical education, she devoted her talents and acquirements so faithfully and modestly to the soldiers' benefit, that only her skill discovered her profession, as she held the position alone, of female nurse, under the Chicago Sanitary Commission."
"Nurses encountered difficulties of another kind after the war. "Since nurses were not usually sworn into service," Eckerman writes, "many women who gave their lives and health in service to their country were denied pensions that many undeserving men received."
Almira Fifield died on March 8, 1863, at Hospital No. 1 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. Her remains were returned to Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, and a funeral service took place there in the Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev. Smith of the Valparaiso Male and Female College (now Valparaiso University) officiating. Her remains are buried in the Union Street Cemetery in Valparaiso in an unmarked grave (probably in the Fifield family plot).
Book info: "Indiana in the Civil War: Doctors, Hospitals, and Medical Care," by Nancy Pippen Eckerman. Published November 2001 by Arcadia Publishing. ISBN: 0-7385-1919-7.
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