This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLane, Woodson, Hawthorn, Jones Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5729 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 22 May 1902 "Ex-Confederate Grave Decorated" Aunt Eliza McLane, who while she did not take her musket and march against the hordes of the federal forces, she lent her time and efforts to the comfort and relief of the boys in grey who were so unfortunate as to fall sick from exposure and privations incident to a soldiers life or who fell wounded on the battle field. The following notes on her career and services were furnished by Dr. W. M. Woodson, now of Temple: “She was with Dr. Frank Hawthorn and Dr. Paul Jones of Alabama during the last years of the Confederacy and journeyed with them and their hospital over portions of the Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Only once did she leave her post of relief and duty. Just before the close of the war, she volunteered to make a trip from north Mississippi to her home in central Alabama to get needed supplies for use in the hospital. Transportation being cut-off, she resorted to private conveyance and securing a horse belonging to Dr. Woodson, who was then convalescing! in the hospital, she with bags and bundles of bandages tied to her saddle, mounted the horse and rode from Wilcox Co., AL to join the hospital at West Point, MS, and was there during the battle, secreting the horse in a brick smokehouse, while the federals were in the town. After the battle, she mounted the horse again and rode alone over 200-miles to her home, having often to leave the road to avoid the squads of federal troops who were not raiding that section of Alabama and delivered Dr. Woodson’s father the faithful horse and turned her attention to comforting the bereaved and sick at home.”