Hannah Judkins Starbird

Hannah Elizabeth Judkins Starbird (August 10, 1832 – February 15, 1922) served as an army nurse in the American Civil War.

She wrote, "Pen cannot describe the first boat-load of half-starved, half-clothed, thin, emaciated forms whose feet, tied up in rags, left footprints of blood as they marched along to be washed and dressed for the wards.

In many cases their minds were demented, and they could give no information as to friends or home, and died in that condition, their graves being marked 'Unknown'.

[6] Hannah Judkins married lawyer and Union Army veteran Solomon Bates Starbird in 1866.

In 1998, she was one of the nurses featured in an exhibit at the Bangor Historical Society on "Maine Women in the Civil War".

An older white woman wearing a large portrait brooch at her throat, a high lace collar and a lace shawl.
Hannah Judkins Starbird, from a 1910 publication. Note that she is wearing the same portrait brooch as above.