Amanda Matilda Colburn Felch-- Part 1: Served As Nurse

From Find-A-Grave.

12 November 1833 to 31 December 1893.

Buried at Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery in Canon City, Colorado.

From July 1861 to May 1865 was a nurse with the 3rd Vermont Volunteers with her brother Henry Colburn.

She was present and served at the Battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg and other engagements. Later served with Dorothea Dix.

Received a pension from the government 13 March 1891, by Special Act of Congress.

--Old Secesh