Photograph of Mother Mary de Sales Browne's gravestone in Cedar Hill Cemetery. The Sister of Mercy started a school in Vicksburg, MS, and nursed wounded Confederate soldiers.
1861 letter from a Vicksburg, Mississippi widow, Mrs. O. J. Smith, to Governor Pettus. Mrs. Smith offers her services to the Confederate States as a nurse in Virginia. Two of her lady friends are also willing to serve in the Civil War.
