Anita Newcomb McGee, MD — general medicine
Courtesy National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine, B09272
In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864–1940) was named acting assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Army, making her the only woman permitted to wear an officer’s uniform. She was instrumental in organizing the 1,600 nurses who served during the conflict and wrote the Army Reorganization Act of 1901, which established the Army Nurse Corps as a permanent unit.
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