| Birth: | unknown, USA | | Death: | unknown | 
Folk Figure. Known at the "Florence Nightingale of the Confederacy," she was only 22 when the Civil War broke out. When the Yankee fleet captured Natchez on their way up to Vicksburg, she hid a Confederate flag under her petticoat to prevent its capture and volunteered herself for Confederate hospital service. She met and married George Waddill while they both tended sick and dying Mississippi rebels, and the couple moved back to George's hometown, Baton Rouge, where they continued their healing arts by operating drugstores for many years. (bio by: Helen L. Smith Hoke)
Search Amazon for Joanna Waddill | | | Burial:
Magnolia Cemetery
Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge Parish
Louisiana, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Helen L. Smith Hoke
Record added: Apr 17, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7362113 |
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