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Caroline Asenath Grant Burghardt
(1831-1922)
Burghardt, born in Massachusetts, was working as a governess in New York when the Civil War began. One of the youngest applicants accepted by Dorothea Dix, she served as a nurse in Washington, D.C., Antietam, Gettysburg, Fortress Monroe, Winchester, and Alexandria.
Caroline's story is included in the book "Our army nurses : interesting sketches and photographs of over one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our late Civil War, 1861-65".
Full text of said book is available here.