A Nurse in the Civil War, and Grandmother to the Farnum Brothers.
Biography as published in the book, "A Vast Army of Women. Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War" by Lynda L. Sudlow
Nancy M. Atwood, daughter of John Verplast, a farmer in Montville, Maine, was a seamstress living in Bangor, a widow with one child, when the war broke out. She enlisted as a field nurse under Colonel Abner Knowles of the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment in May 1861. She said, "I felt it my duty to do what I could to help the Union cause by ministering to the sick and wounded. She and Mrs. Mary MacDonald, also from Maine, went first to Augusta and from there to Washington, D.C. They arrived in time to hear the cannons firing at the first battle of Bull Run.
On March 14, 1862, she transferred to the Seminary Hospital at Georgetown where she remained until her health began to fail. She was honorably discharged and went home to Maine. By 1864, she was once again nursing soldiers, this time in the hospital set up in a Bangor gymnasium. After the war she married former patient, Stover P. Gross, a sergeant with the 2nd Maine Infantry, who was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill. The couple settled in Bucksport Maine.
Biography as published in the book, "A Vast Army of Women. Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War" by Lynda L. Sudlow
Nancy M. Atwood, daughter of John Verplast, a farmer in Montville, Maine, was a seamstress living in Bangor, a widow with one child, when the war broke out. She enlisted as a field nurse under Colonel Abner Knowles of the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment in May 1861. She said, "I felt it my duty to do what I could to help the Union cause by ministering to the sick and wounded. She and Mrs. Mary MacDonald, also from Maine, went first to Augusta and from there to Washington, D.C. They arrived in time to hear the cannons firing at the first battle of Bull Run.
On March 14, 1862, she transferred to the Seminary Hospital at Georgetown where she remained until her health began to fail. She was honorably discharged and went home to Maine. By 1864, she was once again nursing soldiers, this time in the hospital set up in a Bangor gymnasium. After the war she married former patient, Stover P. Gross, a sergeant with the 2nd Maine Infantry, who was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill. The couple settled in Bucksport Maine.
A Nurse in the Civil War, and Grandmother to the Farnum Brothers.
Biography as published in the book, "A Vast Army of Women. Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War" by Lynda L. Sudlow
Nancy M. Atwood, daughter of John Verplast, a farmer in Montville, Maine, was a seamstress living in Bangor, a widow with one child, when the war broke out. She enlisted as a field nurse under Colonel Abner Knowles of the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment in May 1861. She said, "I felt it my duty to do what I could to help the Union cause by ministering to the sick and wounded. She and Mrs. Mary MacDonald, also from Maine, went first to Augusta and from there to Washington, D.C. They arrived in time to hear the cannons firing at the first battle of Bull Run.
On March 14, 1862, she transferred to the Seminary Hospital at Georgetown where she remained until her health began to fail. She was honorably discharged and went home to Maine. By 1864, she was once again nursing soldiers, this time in the hospital set up in a Bangor gymnasium. After the war she married former patient, Stover P. Gross, a sergeant with the 2nd Maine Infantry, who was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill. The couple settled in Bucksport Maine.
Biography as published in the book, "A Vast Army of Women. Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War" by Lynda L. Sudlow
Nancy M. Atwood, daughter of John Verplast, a farmer in Montville, Maine, was a seamstress living in Bangor, a widow with one child, when the war broke out. She enlisted as a field nurse under Colonel Abner Knowles of the 6th Maine Infantry Regiment in May 1861. She said, "I felt it my duty to do what I could to help the Union cause by ministering to the sick and wounded. She and Mrs. Mary MacDonald, also from Maine, went first to Augusta and from there to Washington, D.C. They arrived in time to hear the cannons firing at the first battle of Bull Run.
On March 14, 1862, she transferred to the Seminary Hospital at Georgetown where she remained until her health began to fail. She was honorably discharged and went home to Maine. By 1864, she was once again nursing soldiers, this time in the hospital set up in a Bangor gymnasium. After the war she married former patient, Stover P. Gross, a sergeant with the 2nd Maine Infantry, who was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill. The couple settled in Bucksport Maine.
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