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Rh in Forsyth, Georgia, and her name was afterward transferred to the rolls of the Second Presbyterian Church, in Memphis, of which she remained a member as long as she lived.

She became an active worker in hospitals, and when nothing more could be done in Memphis she went through the lines and rendered substantial aid and comfort to the soldiers in the field. Her services, if fully recorded, would make a book. She was so recognized that upon one occasion General Joseph F. Johnston had thirty thousand of his bronzed and tattered soldiers to pass in review in her honor at Dalton. Such a distinction was, perhaps, never accorded to any other woman in the South, not even Mrs. Jefferson Davis, or the wives of the great generals. Yet, so earnest and sincere in her work was she that she commanded the respect and reverence of men wherever she was known. After the war she strove to comfort the vanquished and encourage the down-hearted, and continued in her way to do much good work.

Mrs. Baum, late of Irwinton, Georgia, was born near Bingen, Germany. She emigrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Georgia, residing in Savannah one year, when she removed to Irwinton and there married. From 1850 till her death Irwinton was her home. She died October 30, 1910. During the trying times of 1861-1865 she was ever diligent in aiding in every way in her power the cause of the Confederacy, by donating food, clothing and medicines to the soldiers, and by caring for the needy and sick wives and children of the soldiers of her country at the front.

Mrs. Dorsey was the daughter of Thomas G. P. Ellis and was born at Natchez, Mississippi. She was the niece of Mrs. Catherine Warfield, who left her many of her manuscripts. In 1853 she married Mr. Samuel W. Dorsey, of Tensas Parish, Louisiana. She established a chapel and school for slaves. Their home was destroyed during the war and they removed to Texas, but afterwards returned to Louisiana, and in 1875, on the death of her husband, made her home at "Beauvoir" and acted as the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis in his great work, "Rise and Fall of the Confederacy." In her will she left this beautiful home to Mr. Davis and his daughter Winnie.