Anna E. Turner Army Nurse |
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1899, she went to Cuba on a cattle boat with 1,400 U.S. troops, 720 horses
and mules and nine other Nurses for service in the Spanish-American War.
She spent two years in the Yellow Fever Hospital under General
William Gorgas. She caught the disease and returned to the United States,
but when Gorgas went to Panama for work in connection with the Canal there,
she went too and was on board the first ship ever to pass through the completed
Panama Canal.
She died at the age of 91 and was buried in
Arlington National Cemetery.
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