Modenia Weston

Modena Weston (; August 3, 1816 in Albany, New York – November 25, 1898 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) was a nurse for the Union during the American Civil War.

Nursing career She enlisted in military service as a nurse in Iowa on September 1, 1861. Weston moved to the Benton Barracks, where she was the only woman serving but the station had an adequate supply of sanitary goods. in anticipation of the conflict that would come to be known as the Battle of Shiloh.

Battle of Shiloh In a letter to Mary Holland, the most noteworthy moment of Weston's service was during the Battle of Shiloh. She recounts then travelling to Savannah, caring for the sick there and then to Farrington.

Weston describes in her letter four women joining her in service, but she was soon once again the only woman as the others were wounded and left. Weston remained at this location until September when the hospital was broken up; after, she served at Jackson until March 1863 only to travel again to Memphis then to Washington, D.C.

Later service leftOn April 20, 1863, Weston received a commission from Dorothea Dix. and in January 1864 reported to J.D. Erwin, Superintendent of the U. S. General Hospital of Memphis, Tennessee and was sent to Washington, DC to serve as a matron at a smallpox hospital. Weston finished her military service there in October 1866. She was never paid for her service.