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Over 3,000 nurses serve the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War.
Date: 1865
Nursing
War & massacres
Military
Black history
Hospitals
Medical system (Western medicine)
In the North, most nurses serve in military hospitals. Black nurses are not included in the official numbers, although they serve in soldier convalescent homes and U.S. government hospitals.
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