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[Portrait of Georgiana Willets Stradling]
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Description | Photograph shows Georgiana Willets Stradling (1840-1912), of Jersey City, New Jersey. Willets was a nurse during the American Civil War. She was twenty-four years old when she went to Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1864, to assist with caring for wounded soldiers after the Battle of the Wilderness near Fredericksburg. In mid-June she was at City Point, assigned to the 2nd division hospital of the 2nd corps, Army of the Potomac, where she remained for the duration of the war. After the war she taught at a Freedman's school in Lynchburg, Va., were she met her future husband James M. Stradling, superintendent at the school; they married around 1868. By 1870 they were living in Bristol, Pennsylvania and working at the Soldiers' Orphans Home for Colored Children. She died in 1912 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Stradling, Georgiana Willets,--1840-1912. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Howland, Emily,--1827-1929--Friends & associates. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
