Rosanna Dyer Osterman Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Rosanna Dyer Osterman helps Confederacy retake Galveston January 1, 1863 Rosanna Dyer Osterman, born in Germany, was living in Galveston, Texas, in 1862 when Union forces captured the city. http://jwa.org/thisweek/jan/01/1863/rosanna-dyer-osterman Rosanna Dyer Osterman Rosanna Dyer Osterman’s supplies helped travelers explore the western frontier, but it was her life-saving efforts as a nurse for which she was best remembered.