Harriet Patience Dame Papers, 1866-1897

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Harriet Patience Dame Papers, 1866-1897

1866-1897

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The Harriet Patience Dame Papers includes correspondence to, from, and about Dame as well as correspondence about and to Sarah Warren. Much of the correspondence is also with Joab N. Patterson, who served in the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteers during the Civil War, the same regiment with which Dame was a nurse.

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Dame, Harriet Patience, 1815-1900

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Dame was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire (or North Barnstead) to James Chadbourne and Phebe Ayers on January 5, 1815. Dame was the youngest of five children. In 1843, Dame moved to Concord, New Hampshire where she lived until the outbreak of the Civil War, and worked at various occupations. By 1861, she ran a student boarding house. She had no formal training as a nurse. When war came, Dame, aged 46, approached the recruit training station at Camp Union in Concord and offered her services to...