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English: Mrs. Elmina P. Spencer was a nurse during the American Civil War. Traveling with her husband, a surgeon with the 147th New York Infantry, she cared for officers and soldiers from the U.S. Army of the Potomac, employing a steamer (the "Planter", which had been placed at her disposal) to transport the wounded. In conjunction with the Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania in 1863, she cared for General Daniel Sickles following the amputation of his right leg. She was also later seriously wounded herself. Shot by a spent ball at City Point, Virginia, her sciatic nerve was damaged, causing a permanent disability. Post-war, she was one of four women to be honored as heroes by the State of New York with a marble statue bearing her likeness placed on the Grand Stair Case of the Capitol Building in Albany, New York. A member of the National Association of Civil War Army Nurses, she resided in Oswego, New York in 1910.