Lucy Nichols

Lucy Nichols, possibly with veterans of the Civil War and Spanish-American War in Indiana, circa 1898

"Lucy Higgs Nichols" statue

(Wave 3 News)

Karen:

Heroic Civil War nurse, Lucy Nichols

Episode sources:

1. “The Tenacious Nurse” by Eileen Yanoviak

2. “Lucy Higgs Nicholas: From Slave to Civil War Nurse of the Twenty-third Indiana Regiment” by Pamela R. Peters, Curtis H. Peters, and Victor C. Megenity (Traces of Indiana and We Do History: Indiana Historical Society) 2010

3. “Episode 11 Lucy Higgs Nichols Read By Eileen Yanoviak” (Oldham County: 30 Days of Stories)

4. “New Albany center salutes slave of ‘172nd’” by Jenna Esarey (The Courier Journal) 2010

5. “Authorizing Women in Military Service: Nursing to Combat” (US Department of Veterans Affairs)

6. “History Mystery Book: Lucy Higgs Nichols Story” (The Carnegie Center) 2021

7. “Escaped slave nursed Indiana troops in Civil War regiment” by Dawn Mitchell (Evansville Courier and Press) 2020

8. “Black History Month: Lucy Higgs Nichols” (Sons of Liberty) 2025

9. “Stories of Service: The Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols” (Indiana War Memorials Foundation)

10. “Lucy Higgs Nichols” (Indiana Commission for Women) 2019

11. “Life and Legacy of Lucy Higgs Nichols” by Patrick Hollis (Medium) 2025

12. “Photo: underground railroad & lucy higgs nichols exhibits” (Carnegie Center for Art & History / TripAdvisor)

13. “Veterans Day” (African Burial Ground National Monument)

14. “Photo: underground railroad & Lucy Higgs Nichols exhibits” (Tripadvisor | Carnegie Center for Art & History)

15. “Lucy Higgs Nichols Historical Marker” By Alex Covington, Jacob Burress, Trish Nohalty, & Tommy Skaggs (Discover Indiana)

16. “How the US Civil War Inspired Women to Enter Nursing” by Becky Little (History)

17. “Wounds, Ammunition, and Amputation” by Terry Reimer (National Museum of Civil War Medicine) 2007

18. “Higgs, Lucy A., and John H. Nichols” (African Americans Database, University of Kentucky)

19. “What Were Contraband Camps?” (Britannica)

20. “Female Nurses During the Civil War” by Paige Gibbons Backus (American Battlefield Trust) 2020

21. “Flashback Friday - Harriet Tubman's Overlooked Story as a Nurse” by Maura Singleton (UVA School of Nursing) 2019

22. “Behind the Lens: A History in Pictures” (PBS/Mercy Street)

23. “Black History Month Proud to Serve: African American Army Nurse Corps Officers: (AMEEDD Center of History & Hertiage)

24. “Grapeshot” (Britannica)

25. “Atlanta” (Battlefields.org

26. “Sherman’s March to the Sea” (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

27. “Lucy ‘Aunt Lucy’ Higgs Nichols” (Debra DeBerry) 2024

28. “Vicksburg” (Battlefields.org)

29. “Lucy Higgs Nichols” (Wikipedia)