Event Dime

Eileen Yanoviak on her book "The Tenacious Nurse Nichols, An Unsung African American Civil War Hero"

When:

August 23, 2026 · 2:30 PM

Where:

Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremon Landing, 7410 Moorman Road, Louisville, KY

Source:

6AM City Louisville – Events

Please join us for a presentation by author Eileen Yanoviack on her 2025 book The Tenacious Nurse Nichols, An Unsung American Civil War Hero on Sunday, August 23, 2026 @ 2:30 PM in the Riverside Visitors Center. There are only two known photographs of Lucy Higgs Nichols, a Civil War nurse who escaped enslavement to join the Indiana 23rd Regiment. In one captivating image from 1898, the elderly Nichols is the sole female and the only person of color. She stands stately in the middle of a large gr