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wrote to him in support as well. She was not moved, but instead left the service when she married Dr. John Summerfield Andrews in November 1861. They moved to
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in 1856 and graduated the following year. At the time, she was one of 38 women who had earned medical degrees in the United States.
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in 1883. At the time of her death, Andrews had six living sons, although another six children had died in childhood.
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who was one of the first women in America to hold a medical degree. She served as a doctor for the
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hospital. She returned to Albemarle County to give birth to her first son in the following year.
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Andrews was employed as the superintendent of a team of nurses in a makeshift hospital at the
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after the war, but returned to Albemarle County following an altercation with the
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After earning her medical degree, Andrews spent two years traveling in the
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to attend the college, and only the third woman from the
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Albemarle County, Virginia
Lottie Moon
physician
Confederate Army
American Civil War
Albemarle County, Virginia
plantation
Troy Female Seminary
Female Medical College of Pennsylvania
Virginia
Southern United States
thesis
Middle East
Europe
Confederate States of America
University of Virginia
Brigadier General
Philip St. George Cocke
Lottie Moon
Richmond, Virginia
Confederate Army
Tennessee
Ku Klux Klan
cancer




An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields

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