Elisabeth Herndon

Sarah Elisabeth Chapline Herndon of Sweet Home (Pulaski County), the only volunteer Red Cross nurse from Arkansas to serve in the Spanish-American War; circa 1898.

White man in wheelchair smoking a cigarette with white nurse standing over him holding his wrist

Courtesy of the Arkansas State University Museum

Media

Time Period

Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900)

Category

Medicine / Nursing / Science and Medicine

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

White

Gender

Female

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