Friendship Cemetery in Columbus; resting among the soldiers in the center
section is a volunteer nurse killed in the battle of Shiloh. The headstone
reads Mrs. Canant, Vol. Nurse, CSA.
Definitely female.
Catalina
Sanguinem dumtaxat causam virtutis pendate
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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:37:33 -0700
From: "zelda crusher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [h-cost] OT: civil war experts
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At the risk of being obvious, are you sure that Nurse Canant was a female?
Laurie, RN, BSN
>From: "E House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [h-cost] OT: civil war experts
>Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:52:56 -0500
>
>For those of you involved in civil war costuming, I have a slightly odd
>request. Do you know any historians, professional or amateur, who know
>everything about Shiloh and events around the same time & area?
>
>See, for the past 15 years, I've had this very frustrating, completely
>impossible research project that I've been picking up every few years,
and
>now that the internet has become such a useful research tool, I'm going
to
>try to take it up again. Pardon me if my memory is fuzzy on the details,
>since it's been a while and I haven't looked back through my info.
Anyway,
>in Friendship Cemetary, in Columbus, MS, there is a mysterious grave:
it's
>among the CSA soldiers' grave, but is labeled only "Nurse Canant, CSA."
To
>the knowledge of the history professor who assigned me this research
>project in the first place (the college-two-years-early boarding school I
>went to did a "Tales from the Crypt" event every year), no other woman
was
>officially buried as though she were a soldier (not taking into account
>crossdressers) in any CSA graveyard. Obviously, there's an interesting
>story in there somewhere, but what on earth did she do to get that honor,
>and why didn't they know anything else about her? I researched her as
best
>I could with local resources, and discovered that she would most likely
>have died in the battle of Shiloh, but was unable to find any Canants or
>Cannants in the area, or anything else of real use in solving the
mystery.
>
>Hopefully some of you can understand why I can't let this go! A few
years
>back, I did the rounds of the geneaology websites, with no luck, but I'm
>not giving up yet.
>
>-E House
>
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