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Nurse Hattie Dada (1835-1909) rode in a supply-laden ambulance wagon through the streets of Gettysburg and into the Pennsylvania countryside on July 8, 1863. Just a few days earlier, brutal fighting had engulfed the fields, orchards and woods she now passed through on the way to a hospital assignment. In its place were scenes of devastation. Two decades later, in 1884, her reminiscences, "Ministering Angels," were published in the National Tribune. Here's some of her Gettysburg story. Following the war, Dada went on to become a physician.
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Image: Library of Congress.