Phoebe Y. Pember




           She left her comfortable home to spend the war working as a nurse in Richmond's overflowing hospitals, particularly the mammoth Chimborazo military hospital (see below).

"The Image of War, Volume III, The Embattled Confederacy", page 379





           The Great - grand uncle of the webmaster, Charles A. Lawson, was admitted to this hospital with chronic diarrhea. He later died of consumption on May 7, 1865.



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