Isabella Morrison Fogg, Civil War Nurse, only woman to receive disability pension as a result of war injuries

Isabella Morrison Fogg, Union nurse

 

According to the website of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Isabella Fogg was a Union nurse.

Born: December 1823, in New Brunswick, Canada

Served: Maine Camp and Hospital Association, Christian Commission, 1861 to 1865

Died: December 1873, in Washington, DC

"Fogg served with the Maine Camp and Hospital Association and later with the Christian Commission, caring for the wounded on twenty-nine battlefields while being exposed to enemy fire at least eight times.  She also served at various hospitals and on transport ships.  Late in the war she permanently injured her spine after falling through an open hatch of a hospital ship while hurrying to tend to a dying soldier."

https://www.civilwarmed.org/isabella-fogg/

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Donna