Ann Bradford Stokes: African American Civil War Nurse
Ann Bradford Stokes: African American Civil War Nurse
Ann Bradford Strokes (1833-1903) worked aboard the Navy’s first Hospital Ship, Red Rover, of Mound City, Illinois. She worked with sick and wounded soldiers aboard the United States Naval Hospital Ship (U.S.N.) throughout the Western Theater of the Civil War on both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries. Stokes lived mostly aboard the […]