The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

resident of New orleans. A younger
 son Of Mrs Carter, gallant young
 soldier Of Georgia in the Confederate
 army. was killed ct chancsiorsviiie.
 A shinihg lignt of constancy and
 tenderness was that whfch shone From
 the good deeds of Sister Madeline
 O'Brien. whose name is familiar to all
 survivors of the A Nv Only Hast year she celebrated the golden jubilee of her Novitiate of the Sisters of Mary. at her Baltimore rest, and the occasion brought many and loving letters from those who had worked beside hsr or had felt her loving tending, during the war. Among them was one from Dr. Edwin D. Newton. last survivor or General Lees headquarters medical stan.
 At the outbreak of the war, this yoang daughter of a very influential Catholic family, had just passed from her novitiate into the Sist6ghood, She volunteered for service at the front and for all the war was an active and most useful coadiutor to the hospital surgeons ~at the front. Her age Is burnished by the Haeinory of good works gently and modestiy done.
 Almost every maid and matron in the South was a hospital worker but many who rendered admirable and telling service were. of course, not att tached to any special institution. That class has fair example in Mrs. Boiling Haxali, of Richmond. She was among the first to start that Idea. later so very. generally adopted, to at up one room in her house with cots and blank cts, to receive the expected stream of wounded from Manassas. But these private chapels of mercy soon over flowed. and great, disused warehouses had to be rapidly outfitted to meet the
 bloody needs of the hour; fact that in nowise detracted from the beautiful unselnshness Of the first offerings. Mrs. Haxali--as did many another good housekeeper--baked quantities of
 bread daily. to send to the hospitals. Her husband. too, was zealot in his
 loyalty ot The Cause. He would never permit his family to buy or to use any thing that the blockade had brought in. He never handled or used green back or gold. and the first United
 States script ha ever had was after the surrender, when he sold his horses and carriage to buy food. Even then, 1 Charity did not begin. or remain at home. Hearing that General Lees l family were without meat. through his ! only daughters intimacy with Miss r Mildred Lee. the Haxails sent them a l half dozen hams in Miss Lou's name,
 so that they could not be refused.
 Rigors of space and respect for the readers patience. warn cessation of | this gossip, which might spin to the length of Pene1ops's web. Of the | many brave ana helpful women, have f noted only part who rise before the | mirror of the memory. others well | worthy of mention. must be left un- | noted, although ''The half hath not | been told unto ye."
 And some of the helpful did not con- l me themselves to the hospitals. but | followed the drum alongside their hus- 1 bands, A notable example of this was | Mrs. John B. Gordon, who was every.
 where by that lightning fighter, where danger and fame rained wounds and honors on him. When he was borne ] off from holding Lees centre. at | 6harpsburg. with his life ebbing out of l i've ghastly wounds. she was there, l and only her minlstration held him | from the gaping jaws of Death.
 1 Vigorous and energetic Mrs. Kirby | Smith was always at that tough old i nghters side. When pretty Cassie | Seiden nursed young Brigadier .iith l after Manassas, the natural result fol- | lowed and she became the first bride i of the Confederacy. Thenceforward | she was her husbands comrade. aide | and counsellor, through all the hard | ships of the Middle West and especial.
 ly during his vigorous conduct of his
 ""cross River Kingdom" of the trans | Mississippi. d. sS
 only q year, ago. Mrs, Kirbysssnith who had survived her gallant husband
 a dozen years at their Sewanee home.