Miss Lucy: Slave and Civil War Nurse
Judith C Owens-Lalude
Miss Lucy: Slave and Civil War Nurse
Judith C Owens-Lalude
Lucy Higgs Nichols, a runaway slave, lives in several states as a child, but is never sold. At twenty-four she joins the 23rd Indiana Regiment and becomes a Civil War nurse. In 1898 Lucy receives a nurse’s pension by a Special Act of Congress. When Lucy dies, in 1915, she is buried with full military honors.
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