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HOSPITAL WORK IN THE SIXTIES.
The accompanying picture of J.E. Hanna and
Athalinda Robeson was taken soon after their marriage in
Chesterfield, S.C., in 1855. After serving in the War between the
States from 1861 to the fall of 1864, when his health failed, young
Hanna was put in charge of the hospital at Augusta, Ga., where his
wife, with her seamstress, had been sewing for the Confederate
soldiers, making forty coats every two weeks. When the hospital was
moved to Madison, Ga., she was made chief nurse, and valuable
services were rendered her by her two little girls, Dollie and
Mollie, both of whom were eager to brush away the flies or hand
water and otherwise relieve the sufferings of the living, and they
followed every poor fellow to his last resting place, carrying
flowers and shedding tears for them. It was Mrs. Hanna who
wrote the letter of sympathy to absent loved ones, inclosing a lock
of hair with the last loving words.
Dollie is now Mrs. D. J. Browning, of Lakeland, Fla. Mollie is Mrs.
W. P. Meyer, of Jasper, Fla. Both would be glad to hear from any
soldier who was in that hospital. Mrs. Hanna passed away in 1920 at
the home of another daughter, Mrs. Annie. H. Darracote, of Lakeland,
with whom she made her home. |
