Her subsequent career is best related in the following letters from surgeons of high rank, and whose official positions gave them abundant opportunities of estimating the work she performed and the strength of the spirit which animated her.  The letters were called from their authors in the spring of 1883, nearly twenty years after the close of the war, upon the occasion of a musical and literary entertainment being tendered Mrs. Beers by her soldier friends in New Orleans.  So profound was the gratitude for her former services to sick and wounded Confederates, that all the military organizations exerted themselves to make it a success, and at the meeting of the members of the “Army of Tennessee,” complimentary resolutions were passed, and the letters read.

  “NEW ORLEANS, March 8, 1883.

  “JUDGE ROGERS: 

  “DEAR SIR,—­Understanding that the members of the ’Army of
  Tennessee’ have tendered Mrs. F.A.  Beers an entertainment, I feel
  anxious to aid in securing its success.

“I am well qualified to testify to the valuable and disinterested services which this lady rendered in the Confederate hospital during the late war.  In truth, aside from officers and soldiers who may be now living and still holding in remembrance the kind and skilful nursing which she gave them personally while wounded or sick, I know of only four persons whose positions made them fully cognizant of the heroism, devotion, and self-sacrifice which she brought to the discharge of her duties.  These are, first, Dr. T.H.  McAllister, now of Marion, Alabama, in whose admirably-conducted hospital she was the only matron during the greater part of the war; second, Dr. C.B.  Gamble, now of Baltimore; third, Dr. S.H.  Stout, now of Roswell, Georgia, medical director of hospitals of the Army of Tennessee; fourth, the writer.

“I know that I can venture to speak in behalf of these gentlemen and for myself in declaring that the skill and efficiency with which she nursed and fed our sick and wounded soldiers, and the coolness and bravery with which she faced danger in discharge of these duties do merit suitable recognition from the survivors of those rapidly-diminishing numbers who fought under the Confederate flag.

  “Very respectfully,

  “S.M.  BEMISS, M.D.,

  “Late Assistant Medical Director and Medical Director of Hospitals,
    Army of Tennessee.”

  “MARION, ALABAMA, March 11, 1888.

“Dr. S. BEMISS, New Orleans,—­Having heard an entertainment was to be given in your city on March 29 for the benefit of Mrs. Fannie A. Beers, I feel it to be my duty, as well as pleasure, to add my testimony to her worth and to the part she played in the late war.

“During the three years she was with me as a Confederate hospital matron, she conducted herself as a high-toned lady in the strictest sense of the term, and to every word I may say of her there