Belle Reynolds

Belle Reynolds (née Arabella Macomber; October 20, 1840 – 1937) was an American Civil War nurse, physician, and woman's club leader.

Returning East to complete her education, she afterward became a school teacher in the then wilderness of Cass County, Iowa.

Marrying, in 1860, Mr. Reynolds of Illinois, she removed to Peoria, where on the anniversary of her wedding she heard the news of the firing upon Fort Sumter.

[4] The commission bore the note, “Given to Mrs. Belle Reynolds for meritorious conduct in camp and on the bloody field of Shiloh, as daughter of the regiment, with the rank of Major.

[6] At the close of the war, she began the study of medicine and surgery, which she practiced thereafter, being for years on the clinical staff of Hahnemann College, in Chicago.