Charlotte Bradford

Charlotte Bradford (1813 to 1893) was an American nurse who served during the Civil War. She was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, the daughter of Captain Gershom Bradford and Sarah Hickling Bradford, and grew up in the Bradford House, which is now a house museum run by the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society. In May 1862 she left Boston to nurse aboard one of the hospital ships of the U.S. Sanitary Commission's Hospital Transport Service, which was organized in April 1862 and kept up until the end of the Peninsula Campaign in August 1862. She later served as matron of the Commission's Soldier's Home and Home for Wives and Mothers in Washington, DC. The record of her work is short, but it places her among the women who carried out organized nursing for the Union armies.