Started elementary school in her grandmother's house
Published Conversations on Common Things: Or Guide to Knowledge
Suffered from illness and suffered from a mental breakdown
Met prison reformer Elizabeth Fry; grandmother died
Taught Sunday School to prisoners in East Cambridge
Asked Congress to grant more than 12 million acres of land
President Franklin Pierced vetoed it.
Civil War Nurse
In 1861, she went into the civil war as a nurse and was soon appointed to organize the outfit union army hospitals and to oversee the vast nursing staff.
Civil War started
Was ousted from her position and stripped of her authority; sent home.
Raised money to construct soldier memorial at Hampton, Virginia.
Women's first suffrage law passed
Contracted Malaria; sent to the hospital she had founded 40 years earlier.
