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.
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