Army+Nursing+Corpsga

= Army and Nursing Corps = Shortly after establishment of the Continental Army on 14 June 1775, Major General Horatio Gates reported to Commander-in-Chief George Washington that "the sick suffered much for want of good female Nurses." General Washington then asked Congress for "a matron to supervise the nurses, bedding" and for nurses "to attend the sick and obey the matron's orders." In July 1775, a plan was submitted to the Second Continental Congress that provided one nurse for every ten patients and provided "that a matron be allotted to every hundred sick or wounded."