Carrie H. Doll

Pension File: 1138485
P.O.: 607 East Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland
Service: Patterson Park, Hicks General Hospital
Applied: 1892
Status: Abandoned

Another day, another random file pulled.  Doll's claim is a scant 7 pages, but here's what I managed to pull from it.
Doll, who served under the name Carrie H. Perry (her first married name), began work in February, 1865 at Patterson Park Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.  She was transferred to Hicks GH in May, and remained there until January 29th, 1866.  The exact nature of her service is unclear.  The hospital rolls for Patterson Park and Hicks Hospitals listed her as a cook, while she claimed her service was as a nurse.  She was 67 when she applied; "the infirmities of old age" as she put it kept her from earning a living--she'd previously worked as matron at the city jail.  When the Bureau began examining her claim and found her listed as cook, they wrote to her informing her of her status on the official records and asked for original documents to prove her claim.  Doll never wrote back.  She hadn't died (I checked the Baltimore city directory, and the Census Records and Doll is listed at East Chase Street until at least 1902), but for whatever reason she never tried to press her claim.  Lucky for Doll, though, the 1900 census has her living with her widowed brother who had apparently come over from England just a few years previously, so she wasn't alone.