Helen M. Noye Hoyt papers 1863-1925, bulk 1863-1864.

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Helen M. Noye Hoyt papers 1863-1925, bulk 1863-1864.

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This collection consists mainly of letters that Helen Hoyt wrote to her family and friends in Buffalo, New York, while working as a nurse in the Naval Academy Hospital during the Civil War. Her letters are about the suffering and death of the soldiers, her job, and her religious sentiments.

70 items.

William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7138967

William L. Clements Library

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Hoyt, Helen M. Noye, 1839-1926.

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Helen or Nellie M. Noye was born around 1844 in Buffalo, New York. Her father John T. Noye was a wealthy manufacturer of mill machinery. Helen had two brothers Hadie and Richard K., and a sister Lizzie. In August of 1863 Helen journeyed to Annapolis, Maryland, to spend one year as a volunteer nurse in the U.S. General Hospital Division No. 1, also called the Naval Academy Hospital. The hospital had opened in 1857 and remained open through out the Civil War, even though the Naval Aca...

U.S. Naval Academy Hospital (Annapolis, Md.)

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U.S. General Hospital. Division One (Annapolis, Md.)

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