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The United States Navy Nurse Corps was formally established by the Congress in 1908. For nearly 100 years previously, however, women had worked as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospitals.

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During the American Civil War, Catholic Sisters of the Holy Cross served in Navy facilities and on board the pioneer hospital ship Red Rover in the Mississippi River area.

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