- Sallie Chapman Gordon Law
Sallie Chapman Gordon Law (nicknamed Mother of the Confederacy) (1805 - 1894) was the first recorded Confederate nurse in the
American Civil War . She was the president of the Southern Mothers’ Association, a group of women from the Second Presbyterian Church inMemphis, Tennessee .The Southern Mothers started making uniforms for Tennessee soldiers before the state had even seceded from the Union. They started with only twelve beds with which to treat soldiers, but soon moved to a larger facility.
When
Leonidas Polk dispatched troops toColumbus, Kentucky , Law went up to Kentucky with boxes of supplies. The Southern Mothers' worked at Overton hospital, tending to Confederate and Union patients. She also went toLa Grange, Georgia , where she worked at Law Hospital, which was named after her.After sending boxes of blankets, socks, and underclothes to soldiers on
Dalton, Georgia , she was honored with a parade.External links
* [http://www.synodoflivingwaters.org/the_voice/0404/06heroism.html The Voice - Heroism In A Lost Cause - George M. Apperson]
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