"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 are
hundreds, yea, thousands, of Confederate soldiers scattered all
over the South who would cheerfully testify to some facts if
opportunity were offered them.
"After the battles of Shiloh and Farmington, and then the
evacuation of Corinth, I was ordered to establish hospitals (in
June or July, 1862) for the sick and wounded of General Bragg's
army, at Gainesville, Alabama. With scarcely any hospital supplies
I began preparations for the same, and in answer to a card
published in the Selma (Alabama) papers, asking for supplies and a
suitable lady to act as matron, she promptly responded.
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