The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-30
SOME NOBLE ALABAMA WOMEN.

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 The following article from the pen or Mrs Sue Pierce Finley of Montgomery appeared in the October issue or The Confederate Veteran. Mrs. Finley is one of the most prominnet members Of the Daughters of the Confederacy in the State and does earnest and distinguished work in the local chapter line. The article is illustrated by excellent pictures of Mrs. John May Pierce and Mrs. M' w. Pierce.
 '.There never lived a more patriotic de- voted. and loyal people to the cause or the South in her desperate struggle for ih- dependence than those people who then resided at and near Collerine, Lowndes County. Ala. No more beautiful spot could have been selected by people for resi- dences than this little hamlet, with US grand oaks, it's trailing vines, and It's bubblng springs.
 "Collertne Hill rises up almost perpen- dicularly from the surrounding country to a height of forty or fifty feet-sahdy and level on the top of the hills. emorac- ing an area of hundred or so acres it seemed, as If devised by nature for the homes of those wealthy planters who owned the rich prairie plantations stretch ing ont helow in the distance as far as the eye can reach.
 "Here resided in 1860-65 such families as the DunklIus, Pierces, Rivers. Cafreys' and many others-a refined, cultured, re- ligious, and wealthy people. All the men and boys were in the Confederate army, onlv the women and children at home. Already their energies had been taxed in the arduous duties of farm lire ana III weaving cloth, knitting socks. and making clothes for the soldiers at the front
 "Durine the summer of 1864 the hospital authorities of the Confederate States at Montgomery, Ala. appealed to the people In help care for the sick and wounded soldiers, who were overcrowding the hos- pitals at Montgomery.
 Mrs. John May Pierce of Collerine, | Ala. immediately rendered her handsome, furnished home of ten rooms for the use l of the hospital authorities. In tew days notice came to her that forty sol- diers would reach Benton by boat on their way to Collerine. Vehicles Of all kinds were dispatched to Benton to con- vey them to Collerlne, which was ten | miles distant. The good, patriotic people of Collerine and surrounding country con tributed of their substance to feed ana to proyide for these helpless wearers or | the gray until they were ready to return | to their commands or to their homes; and' marvellous to relate, only one of the forty | soldiers died.
 The young matron oI the hosPi'oi " ~ the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Pierce, the
 wife of her oldest son. pr. Dunklin
 Pierce. who was in the army. She was a lovely young woman, and remained
 with the soldiers day and night in the | hospital. caring for them ana dressing | their wounds while the elder Mrs Piece
 was looking after her plantations and
 raising corn for the armies of the Con- l federacy. The Dunklin and Caffey girls assisted Mrs. Dr. Pierce in attending to
 the soldiers. Think of these tenderly
 reared girls waiting on those wounded and
 sick soldiers, and dhessing the most of- fensive wounds with their own hands!
 The writer was a child visiting her uncle
 at that time, and esteemed it a great
 privilege to hold the basin of water while the ladies bathed the wounds of the sol
 diers She knit pair of socks for a
 young Texan to carry home. who thought 1t a wonderful thing for young girl like
 her to do.