Sep 24  The Florence Nightingale of the South
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-09-24

Mackenzie Smith, a senior at Trinity Episcopal School, presents a Natchez History Minute about Joanna Fox Waddill, who was born on this day, Sept. 24 in 1838.  Waddill became known as a southern Florence Nightingale when she left Natchez to nurse soldiers on the front lines. Later, she was matron of a Confederate hospital in Meridian, Mississippi.