of mercy she made no distinction.  There she was daily seen with her servant going into the prison of the Federal soldiers with bandages and baskets of provisions to minister to the wants of such as were slightly wounded or needed some attention.  Many a Federal officer and soldier would doubtless bear willing testimony to these acts of unselfish kindness.

“While Atlanta was invested and being shelled she, contrary to my advice and urgent remonstrance, took boxes of provisions to her husband and comrades in the trenches when the shot and shell fell almost like hail.  While at Fort Valley her courage and patriotism were put to the severest test in an epidemic of smallpox.

“When all who could left, she remained and nursed the Confederate soldiers with this loathsome disease.  I desire to say she was a voluntary nurse, and did all her work from patriotism alone, until it became necessary for her to remain as a permanent attache of the hospitals that her name should go upon the pay-rolls.  After that she spent her hard earnings in sending boxes to the front and dispensing charity upon worthy objects immediately under her care.

“She was with me as voluntary nurse, or matron, for more than three years, and during that time she conducted herself in every respect so as to command the respect and esteem of all with whom she came in contact, from the humblest private to the highest in command, and the citizens of every place where she was stationed gave her a hearty welcome, and invited her into the best of society.

“Feeling this much was due to one who suffered so many privations for ‘Dear Lost Cause,’ I send it to you for you to use as you think proper in promoting her good.  You know me well, and can vouch for anything I have said.

  “Very respectfully,

  “WM. T. McALLISTER, M.D.,

  “Late Surgeon P.A.C.S.”

After such testimonials of worth and work, anything more would seem out of place.  Yet we cannot refrain from mentioning some of the sayings of soldiers who, though forgotten, yet recall her with affection for the tender nursing received at her hands.  Says one, “She was the moving spirit in the hospital, officially and practically.  The first object of her ministrations was to relieve suffering and save life.  The next was to fit men for service.  When health was restored she would brook no shirking, but with the power of kindly words impelled patients to the field.  Her zeal sprang from profound convictions of the righteousness of the Cause, and with the vehemence of sincerity she wielded a great influence over those who had recovered under her care.”

Another declares that he has seen her “not only bathing the heads of soldiers, but washing their feet.”

So the evidence accumulates, and it is no wonder she is called by many “The Florence Nightingale of the South.”