This is a guest post by Elizabeth Lindqwister, the 2019 Family Fellow for the Liljenquist Collection of Civil War Photography at the Library of Congress. Elizabeth is an undergraduate student at Stanford University and will be working with the collection and the Library’s Prints and Photographs division for the summer.
I don’t believe in dead ends. A cul-de-sac is just a looping point, a retirement is a new beginning, running out of time is finding time for something else. And a Civil War nurse identified only by name and location? Well, that’s an opportunity.
When I started looking into nurse Cynthia Denham, I realized I had very