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Ruth Swett Mayhew worked as a nurse at the Maine field hospital at City Point, Virginia, and was an agent for the Maine Camp Hospital Association, distributing supplies to soldiers.

Born in Orland, she grew up on the Cranberry Isles and in Surry. Her husband, the Rev. Andrew H. Mayhew of Rockland, had died in 1856.

Mayhew reported to Ellen Usher Bacon on supplies received and needed and her activities on behalf of the Maine Camp Hospital Association. Bacon's sister Rebecca Usher worked with Mayhew.

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About This Item

• Title: Nurse Ruth Mayhew to Ellen Bacon, 1865
• Creator: Ruth Swett Mayhew
• Creation Date: 1865-01-10
• Subject Date: 1865
• Media: Ink on paper
• Dimensions: 19.8 cm x 12.5 cm
• Local Code: Coll. 9, Box 1/7
• Collection: Rebecca Usher papers
• Object Type: Text

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Standardized Subject Headings

• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
• Soldiers
• Military hospitals
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief
• Maine Agency Sanitary Commission
• Relief (Aid)
• Women in war--History--19th century
• Letters
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation Female
• Nurses, American
• War-Relief of sick and wounded
• Maine Sanitary Commission
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals
• Maine Camp Hospital Association
• Mayhew, Ruth--Correspondence

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• Mayhew, Ruth

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• Letters

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