[1] On 23 April 1883 she was awarded the Egypt Medal and a Royal Red Cross, by (reportedly) Queen Victoria, with other nurses who had served in the Mahdist War.

[4] Other sources note that she was chosen from 80 applicants to lead the new training school at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore.

In 1893 she was sent by the American Red Cross to help with the aftermath of the 1893 Sea Islands hurricane around Beaufort in South Carolina.

[1] During the Spanish-American War she joined the U.S. Army Hospital Service and she was nursing at Fort McPherson in Atlanta.

[1] The Louisa Parsons Legacy Society at the University of Maryland is named in her honour as she gave the first bequest to the nursing school.