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About Emily Elizabeth Parsons
Emily Elizabeth Parsons was an American Civil War nurse, hospital administrator, and founder of Mount Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts. Her posthumous memoir, Fearless Purpose: Memoir of Emily Elizabeth Parsons, gives a rare glimpse of the American Civil War from a nurse's perspective as she describes her work tending to Union soldiers and managing the nursing staff at Benton Barracks Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
Everything about Emily Elizabeth Parsons →- Occupation
- nurse
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 8, 1824
- Died
- May 19, 1880