- Carrie Sheads
Carrie Sheads was the principal of an all girls boarding school near
Gettysburg ,Pennsylvania . In early July of 1863, she wanted to take the girls on a field trip to visit the Union military camps. Before she got the chance, everyone at the school awoke one morning to the sound of gunfire. They couldn't get out of Gettysburg in time, so they used the school as a hospital to help wounded soldiers. Carrie Sheads and all the schoolgirls worked as nurses. [cite book |title=Civil War Heroines |last=Canon |first=Jill |year=2000 |publisher=Bellerophon Books |isbn=0883881470 ] [cite book |title=Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience |last=Brockett |first=Linus Pierpont |coauthors=Vaughan, Mary C.; Bellows, Henry Whitney |year=1867 |publisher=R. H. Curran |pages=p. 776 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t_ALAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA776&dq=%22Carrie+Sheads%22&num=100&client=firefox-a ]References
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