Mary Perkins (nurse)

Mary Perkins (May 5, 1839 – November 18, 1893) was a Union nurse during the American Civil War.

She later moved to Enfield, Maine until the outbreak of the Civil War.

[1][2] Shortly after, she accompanied the regiment to Washington, D.C., where she served at Brigade Hospital.

[1] In March 1862, the regiment moved, and Perkins then served at Hygeia Hospital.

[3][2] At this hospital, Perkins worked with Dorothea Dix throughout McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.