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.

Generously contributed by Nancie O'Sullivan