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Huntsville Academy was located in Huntsville, Alabama and was used as the Second District Hospital from October 15, 1898 to February 8, 1899. During its use as the Second District Hospital, many nurses assembled here before leaving for Cuba.

Nurses were assigned to military hospitals in Florida, Minnesota, Texas, Long Island, California, Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and other areas.  A few Army nurses served at the Naval Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.  Women also nursed on board the Army’s transports and hospital ships.  Aboard the Navy hospital ship USS Relief was Esther Hasson who later became the Chief of the Navy Nurse Corps.  She recalled the hospital ship's operating room.

Its crowning glory was the big X-Ray machine,... at that time something new to medical science.  After reaching Cuba it was in constant use ... [for] gunshot wounds ... to have bullets located and so escape the painful probing ... [that] had been the usual procedure.  -Esther Voorhees Hasson

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