1. Cornelia Hancock was a celebrated volunteer nurse, serving the injured and infirmed of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
10 Facts About Cornelia Hancock
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Cornelia Hancock was born in Cornelia Hancock's Bridge, New Jersey, to Quakers of old colonial ancestry.
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Cornelia Hancock was the only female nursing volunteer to be rejected.
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Cornelia Hancock had no formal training as a nurse; but after three weeks, she was tending to eight tenths of wounded.
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In October she tended to the large numbers of hungry and injured escaped slaves who were arriving in Washington, DC On February 10,1864, Cornelia Hancock joined the II Corps and served with them at the II Corps Hospital near Brandy Station, Virginia, at the Battle of the Wilderness and the Siege of Petersburg.
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Cornelia Hancock worked in the II Corps hospital at the Depot Field Hospital in City Point.
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Cornelia Hancock was a board member of the Children's Aid Society 1883 to 1895 and helped children orphaned after the Johnstown Flood.
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Cornelia Hancock served as president of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War.
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In 1914, Cornelia Hancock retired to Atlantic City to live with her niece.
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Cornelia Hancock died of nephritis in 1927, aged 87, and her ashes were buried at Cedar Hills Friends Cemetery in Harmersville, New Jersey.