Two Women with the Union Army at Gettysburg and Beyond

Tom Elmore

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Catherine Chase. (National Tribune, October 31, 1889, p. 9) "A Female Veteran. Death of a New Jersey Army Nurse. Mrs. Catherine Chase died at Paterson, N. J., Oct. 23. Mrs. Chase was a nurse in the field of battle during three years, serving in the Army of the Potomac. She dressed the wounds and whispered words of comfort to many a mangled soldier at the battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, through the Wilderness and in front of Petersburg, clear up to the surrender of Lee at the close of the war. Her husband was in the 62d N.Y., and Mrs. Chase always marched with the regiment, refusing to get into an ambulance so long as there was a wounded or sick soldier deserving to be carried. She never received a pension or other financial aid from the Government; but her services were recognized in many official records. She served her country as ably as any soldier ever battled for his country. Her husband, besides being a veteran of the late war, was a soldier in the Mexican War. He receives a small pension for the latter, but none for the former, although he was several times wounded. He is now quite an old man and very feeble and incapacitated for work. He is a member of Farragut Post, and Mrs. Chase was a member of the W. R. C." [Woman's Relief Corps]

Sarah (Sykes) Sinfield. (National Tribune, August 7, 1890, p. 4) "Dunkirk, N. Y., has a veteran of the war in the person of a woman, Mrs. Wm. Sinfield, to whom Congress has just granted a pension of $15 a month. By special permission she enlisted with her husband in Co. E, 72d N. Y., and was in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Peach Orchard, the second battle of Malvern Hill, the second battle of Bull Run, the battles of Chantilly, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. She has earned her 50 cents a day." Sarah's story is elaborated upon in the following sources:

 
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