American Civil War Confederate Nurse. She is often referred to as "The Florence Nightingale of the South" as a result of her tireless efforts to provide assistance to wounded Confederate soldiers Born on her parent's plantation, she was home schooled until she was enrolled at Miss Ritchie's private institution in Richmond, Virginia. At the age of 16 her mother died, and she returned home to handle her mother's duties at the plantation. At age 19 she married Alexander George Gordon, a US Navy commander who died about ten years later and she then remarried Arthur Francis Hopkins, a lawyer and businessman from Mobile, Alabama, who was involved in state politics and became the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. When her husband was appointed by Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter to oversee Alabama hospitals, they liquidated much of their real estate holdings in three states and contributed the cash to the medical needs of the Confederacy. She coordinated civilian aid and donation efforts, and operating out of a supply depot in Richmond, Virginia, she converted three tobacco factories into hospitals from December 1861 through April 1862. The converted hospital facilities served an aggregate case load exceeding 500 patients and she made daily on-site visits. Her personalizing the effort included handling patient correspondence and supplying reading materials for the soldiers. When a patient died, she would personally send a lock of their hair to their next of kin. At the Battle of Seven Pines in Virginia during the peninsula Campaign on May 31, 1862, she sustained two hip wounds that left her with a permanent limp. That same year, the Confederacy merged the patient load at the smaller hospitals into the larger facilities elsewhere. Union Brigadier General James H. Wilson's Raid of multiple Alabama sites in March and April 1865 forced her to flee the state and take refuge in Newman, Georgia. After the end of the war, she and her husband returned to Mobile and following her husband's death in November 1865 she moved to New York to live on property that had not been sold for the war effort, and she spent her remaining years in poverty. She died at the age of 71. In 1999 she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.