Word: chickamauga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service, I was placed on duty directly under him as Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps, the organization of which began at once. Before the end of '98, members of the Corps had done the nursing at the several hospitals of each of our big camps-Montauk, Chickamauga and Jacksonville, at 31 other hospitals in U. S., on hospital ships and transports, in Honolulu and at several places in Cuba, in Porto Rico and the Philippines. Owing to the splendid work, efficiency and self-sacrifice of these women-13 of whom died at their posts...
...sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, supposedly the last lingering close associate of Abraham Lincoln; near Lexington, Ky. When President Lincoln offered him a union commission at the beginning of the Civil War, General Helm declined, joined a Confederate brigade organized by a friend of his father, was killed at Chickamauga...