| Mary Loomis | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Nurse |
Mary Loomis was a Union nurse during the American Civil War. Loomis served for a total of two and a half years.[1]
Civil War service[]
When the Civil War broke out, Loomis was living with her husband in Coldwater, Michigan. She enlisted in the service as a volunteer nurse alongside her husband in May 1861; they were both in the 1st Michigan Light Artillery.[1][2] Loomis was later appointed to Hospital Number 13 in Nashville, Tennessee, to serve as the hospital matron.[3] She worked at this location from September 1862 until January 1863.[1] In Nashville, Loomis served under a surgeon by the name of H.J.Merrick, MD. She then went on to the Number 20 hospital, also in Nashville, until May. Once again, Loomis served as a matron, this time under the surgeon J.R. Goodwin, MD.[4] Loomis only served in hospitals for a year of her service. The rest of the time, she was in camp with her regiment or marching from one place to the other with them.[2] Her husband died in the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, and Loomis left the service shortly after in November.[1][3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Holland, Mary G.. Our Army Nurses. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 167. ISBN 9781889020044.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hall, Richard. Women of the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. p. 85. ISBN 9780700614370.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Logan, Mrs John A. (1 January 1912). "The Part Taken by Women in American History". Perry-Nalle publishing Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=hnIEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA334&lpg=PA334&dq=mary%20loomis%20civil%20war%20nurse&source=bl&ots=xzZfCjQ7d2&sig=nrHwNmSvUfduNEV_k1s-FsMOlYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK0dWE3MPTAhWKzIMKHXqEDYYQ6AEIIzAA#v=onepage&q=mary%20loomis%20civil%20war%20nurse&f=false.
- ↑ Holland, Mary G.. Our Army Nurses. Roseville: Edinborough Press. p. 167. ISBN 9781889020044.
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