Mary Perkins (nurse)
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1839|5|5|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Brewer, Maine
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1893|11|18|1839|5|5|mf=yes}}
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| nationality = American
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Mary Perkins (May 5, 1839 – November 18, 1893) was a Union nurse during the American Civil War.
Early life
Perkins was born on May 5, 1839, in Brewer, Maine. She later moved to Enfield, Maine until the outbreak of the Civil War.{{cite book|last=Holland|first=Mary G.|title=Our Army Nurses|year=1998|location=Roseville|publisher=Edinborough Press|isbn=9781889020044|page=203}}
Civil War service
Perkins enlisted in 1861 as a nurse for the 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry.{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Richard|title=Women of the Civil War Battlefront|year=2006|location=Lawrence|publisher=University Press of Kansas|isbn=9780700614370|page=230}} Shortly after, she accompanied the regiment to Washington, D.C., where she served at Brigade Hospital. In March 1862, the regiment moved, and Perkins then served at Hygeia Hospital.{{cite book|last=Holland|first=Mary G.|title=Our Army Nurses|year=1998|location=Roseville|publisher=Edinborough Press|isbn=9781889020044|page=204}} At this hospital, Perkins worked with Dorothea Dix throughout McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
Perkins left the service when her brother was injured in the war.
After the war
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Category:Women in the American Civil War
Category:People from Brewer, Maine