Anna Etheridge
War Hero
American Civil War nurse who cared for Union troops and was awarded the Kearny Cross for her bravery and service.
She had worked in a hospital prior to the Civil War and tended to her dying father.
She worked for the United States Treasury Department in the years following the Civil War.
She married James Etheridge in 1860.
She and Clara Barton were both Civil War nurses.