PRESENCE AND PRECEDENTS: THE USS RED ROVER DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865. |
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Roca, S.
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2/1/98
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Journal
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Civil War History
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44(2) p.91-110
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African American
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Traces the career of the Red Rover, a Confederate commercial steamboat captured by Union forces on the Mississippi River in 1862 and outfitted as the first US hospital ship. Although equipped with a cannon and presentduring several campaigns, the Red Rover was generally used to pick up patients from other ships in the fleet, transport them to hospitals, and resupply other ships as needed. The article includes a discussion of and appendix listingarticle includes a discussion of and appendix listing women who served as nurses and laundresses on the Red Rover. The first official US Navy nurses were not the Sisters of Charity but a group of African Americans.
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