![]() ![]() They were the first to rebel-the last to succumb. They incited the men to struggle in support of their views, and whether right or wrong, sustained them nobly to the end. Writing in her memoir, A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond, Phoebe noted, “The women of the south had been openly and violently rebellious from the moment they thought their states' rights touched. Pember believed, "A woman must soar beyond the conventional modesty considered correct under different circumstances." For Phoebe Pember working as a hospital matron was part of showing her devotion to the Confederate cause. ![]() Phoebe Yates Levy Pember was up to the challenge and became one of the South's most remembered female hospital matrons and nurse in the largest military hospital in Confederacy during the Civil War. ![]()
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