Juliet Ana Ople Hopkins "The Florence Nightingale of the South"-- Part 2

Her second husband was a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court and he was named State Hospital Agent in 1861, with the understanding that his wife would carry out the duties of the post.

Mrs. Hopkins often went out onto the battlefields and was once wounded which left her with a permanent limp.  Gen. Robert E. Lee praised her work.

She died while visiting her daughter in Washington, D.C. on May 9, 1890, and was buried at the grave site of her son-in-law, Union General Romeyn Beck Ayers.    Her marker stone was not erected until 1987.  She is not buried in the Confederate Section, but in Section 1.

--Old Secesh

Juliet Ana Ople Hopkins "The Florence Nightingale of the South"-- Part 1

Juliet Hopkins is also buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but not in the Confederate section.

She was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, on May 7, 1818.  During the Civil War she established hospitals in Richmond, Virginia, in 1861 and also got the Matron Alabama Hospitals started.

She was often in the thick of action and was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862.  So highly was she regarded in Alabama, that her portrait was on the 25 cent piece and $50 bills issued during the war.

Her first husband was Commodore Alexander Gordon, whom she married in 1837 (he died in 1849).  She married Judge Arthur F. Hopkins in 1854.

--Old Secesh